Comparative Concept: action nominal (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
action nominal (str)
| Typ | strategy (def) |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | action nominal • nominalization |
| Assoziiert | |
| Spraakbanken | action nominal (str) |
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Definition
a deranked - predicate form that is capable of inflecting for case or of taking adpositions in the same way as nouns do, and with reasonable productivity. Example: in He remains under investigation, investigation is an action nominal. Action nominals overwhelmingly lack predicate-like tense–aspect–mood and argument indexation inflections. (Section 15.3.2)