When we speak of an individual having a property we nominalize the predicate expressing the property we take to be constitutive and ascribe the instantiating properties to the individual thus created. |
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But, Dretske asks, what happens when we nominalize a propositional allomorph? |
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What is the gender identity of the female who prefers to nominalize the masculine form of the noun? |
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This time, however, we nominalize pretax capital income at the new inflation rate. |
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When writers nominalize, instead of using a verb in a clause to represent an action, they change the verb into a noun in a noun phrase. |
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