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What does nominalization mean?

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  1. (linguistics) The use of a word which is not a noun (e.g. a verb or adjective) as a noun, with or without morphological transformation, so that the word can now act as the head of a noun phrase.
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The high incidence of nominalization in the CMA code completes the message of authority given by the imperative mode and its deontological orientation.
The grammatical analysis of both codes was based on passive constructions, mode, nominalization, lexical choice, and moderators.
Compounding became the main device of nominalization.
Relative clauses are used as a means of topicalization of a possessor of a genitive construction, as nominalization of a clause and in questions.
In some cases a nominalization is the specialist vocabulary of a particular profession or community: it has connotations of expertise and — less often — of an insider's self-regard.
Facultada in any event is more appropriately interpreted as a derivative of facultad, itself a nominalization of facultar, a verb denoting empower of authorize.

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