| Abstract [eng] |
Nominalization involves verbs and adjectives. Hence two types of nominalizations: 1) verb-based and 2) adjective-based. Broadly speaking, nominalization is a process by which a proposition (i.e. a congruent structure) is endowed with the function of a noun. This definition distinguishes between true nouns, i.e. units having the features of nouns, and units that can function as nouns. Such units, then, can be a phrase) a non-predicative unit) or a whole proposition (a predicative unit). The results proved that depending on the semantic peculiarities of the underlying verb, some nominalizations behave like uncountable nouns while others behave like countable nouns. Depending on the inner character of the underlying verb, the verb-based nominalizations fall into four types: activity, state, achievement and accomplishment. Furthermore, depending on the lexical properties of the underlying verb, the nominalizations used in the corpus presented two distinct semantic groups: imperfective and perfective. To sum up, the actual type of nominalizations was generally determined by the verb-type they derived from. The verb-based nominalizations play an important role in the organization of the scientific discourse: they significantly increase the general volume of the information in an economical way. |
