Nominalization is a highly productive phenomena in most languages. The process of nominaliza-tion ejects a verb from its syntactic role into a nominal position. The original verb is often replaced by a semantically emptied support verb (e.g., make a proposal). The choice of a support verb for a given nomi-nalization is unpredictable, causing a problem for language learners as well as for natura...

The Affixed Nominalization of Final Assigment Proposal Student Giri Satria Husada Midwifery in Wonogiri Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memaparkan nominalisasi dengan afiksasi dan fungsinya dalam teks proposal tugas akhir mahasiswa kebidanan. Metode penelitian adalah metode kualitatif data berupa kata melalui kalimat pada Teknik pengumpulan yang digunakan yaitu teknik baca catat. Adapun analisis...

This paper focuses on two corpora of headlines and subheadings from news articles about the coronavirus, published in China Daily (CD) The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) between January 7 February 8, 2020. Applying Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) Systemic Functional Linguistics, particularly nominalization framework (Halliday, 1997/2004) Appraisal (Martin White, 2005), explor...

Abstract This paper concerns clausal embedding in Washo (also spelled Washoe, Wáˑšiw), a highly endangered Hokan/isolate language spoken around Lake Tahoe the United States. We argue that offers evidence both complementation and modification are available strategies for subordination, doing so contribute more generally to ongoing debate about how clauses embedded by attitude verbs. observe of c...

Communication using natural language is remarkably e cient, by allowing reuse (through the use of generative devices) of a nite vocabulary to describe a potentially innite set of situations. This vocabulary reuse contributes to words having many related senses (polysemy). Further, meanings can be relatively vague or precise; in other words, varying in their degree of speci cation of meaning. I ...

The aim of this paper is to examine the nominality of the neologism BREXIT using a corpus-informed lexicogrammatical approach. The term BREXIT, coined in 2012, used initially in print and social media in the UK is now internationally wide-spread. BREXIT is a blend of British + exit, which expresses the meaning of’Britain exiting from the EU’. Although ‘Brexit’ clearly expresses an event (motion...

This study investigates brain potentials to derived word forms in Spanish. Two experiments were performed on derived nominals that differ in terms of their productivity and semantic properties but are otherwise similar, an acceptability judgment task and a reading experiment using event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in which correctly and incorrectly formed derived words were presented in sen...

In this chapter we report experiments aiming to verify the conditions under which meaning shift can occur. We address claims by Nunberg (1995, 2004) that a salient ‘‘functional relationship’’ and ‘‘noteworthiness’’ between the primary meaning and the extended meaning are prerequisites of shifting and that such meaning shift should preferentially be analyzed as occurring in such a way as to pres...