Nominalized Verb

A Nominalized Verb is a Nominalized Noun whose Head Word is a Verb.

• AKA: Nominalised Verb.
• Example(s):
  • “truck driver”?
  • "repression"?
  • "transcription"?
  • "increase"?
  • "playing"?
  • "falsehood"?
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Nominalized Adjective, such as:
    • "the beautiful".
    • "the joyful".
• See: Nominalized Adjective, Verbal Compound, Terminological Noun, Nominalization Process.

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References

1996

• (McFetridge et al, 1996) ⇒ Paul McFetridge, Fred Popowich and Dan Fass. (1996). “An Analysis of Compounds in HPSG (Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar) for Database Queries.” In: Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal, 20(2).
  • Selkirk [12] introduces the distinction between verbal and non-verbal compounds. The right member of a verbal compound, its head, is typically a nominalized verb and the left member satisfies an argument of the original verb. An example is truck driver.

1982

• E. Selkirk. (1982). “The Syntax of Words.” MIT Press.

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