A Cognitive-Functional Approach to Nominalization in English

Download or read book A Cognitive-Functional Approach to Nominalization in English written by Liesbet Heyvaert and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main objective of this book is to present a systematic account of the constructional mechanisms that underlie deverbal nominalization. Such an account strongly calls for a functional rather than purely structural approach because nominalizations are basically functional re-classifications of verbal predicates into nominal constructions. The argument is fortified by a detailed discussion of a number of nominalization systems. The book should be of interest to researchers in cognitive and functional linguistics - it combines original descriptive contributions with general theoretical insights.