The conventional grammar wisdom is that turning verbs into nouns — or what is termed “nominalization” in linguistics — is bad for the health of one's prose. The evidence is painfully clear. Take this ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Nominalization has been described as an accompanying property or strategy for relativization, in particular for internally headed relative ...

MANY of us are familiar with this conventional grammar wisdom: turning verbs into nouns — or what is termed "nominalization" in linguistics — is bad for the health of our prose. The evidence that this ...

In order to test the hypothesis that a learner's construction of a theory of a second language can be facilitated by study about language in the form of sentence-combining exercises which focus the ...