Nominalization Operation

Context:
- It can be a Lexical Operation, such as addition of a Suffix such as “-ure” or “-ing”.
- It can be a Grammatical Operation, such the combination into a Nominal Group.
Example(s):
- Verb:
  - “fail” ⇒ "failure”.
  - “care” ⇒ "careless”.
  - “fail” ⇒ "failure”.
  - “check” ⇒ "checking”.
  - “murder” ⇒ "murder”.
  - “organize” ⇒ "organisation”.
  - “refuse” ⇒ "refusal”, e.g. ⇒ "Waldo's [refusal] to help".
- Adjective:
  - “rich” =>"rich”, e.g. "rich people” ⇒ "The [rich]".
  - “blue” ⇒ "blue”, e.g. "He is dressed in blue clothing” ⇒ "He is dressed in blue".
- Verb Phrase:
  - “based out of Redmond” ⇒ "Redmond-based”.
- …
Counter-Example(s):
- a Mathematical Operation.
See: Suffix, Nominal Group.

References

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nominalization
- 1. (linguistics) the use of a verb or an adjective as a noun, with or without morphological transformation, so that the word can now act as the head of a noun phrase.
(Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominalization
- In linguistics, nominalization refers to the use of a verb or an adjective as a noun, with or without morphological transformation, so that the word can now act as the head of a noun phrase.
- Nominalization happens in languages around the world. Some languages allow verbs to be used as nouns, while others require some form of morphological transformation. English has cases of both.
(Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominalization#Grammatical_nominalization
- Grammatical nominalization: This is process by which a grammatical expression is turned into a nominal group, also known more loosely as a noun phrase. An example is the change from "The experiment involved combining the two chemicals" to "The experiment involved the combining of the two chemicals".
  - A nominal form is sometime preferable to its corresponding sentence with a relative clause.
(Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominalization#Lexical_nominalization
- Lexical nominalization: Some verbs and adjectives can be used directly as nouns, such as change, good, murder, and use. Others require a suffix:
  - applicability (from applicable)
  - carelessness (from careless)