This paper reports on a corpus-based quantitative study of the use of nominalizations across China English and British English in two comparable media corpora. In contrast to previous corpus-based studies of nominalizations, we start by using a syntactic approach and proceed with some methodological innovations incorporating large lexical databases and syntactically annotated corpora. The data ...

We discuss nominalizations in Portuguese formed by the suffix -ura. We have done a corpus-based description of the behavior of these nominals and proposed a type ontology to categorize them. In order to offer a rich description, we also tested all words formed by -ura in co-predication contexts to check if their types could be co-predicated. Although our main goal was to produce a corpus-based ...

In this paper we investigate the status of various word-formation rules relating to the derivation of the agentive deverbal nominalization in Slovenian by examining the speakers' perception of pseudo-words that violate these rules. The experiment, based on Manouilidou's (2007) investigation of Modern Greek, includes 20 native speakers of Slovenian. The results show that, contrary to Greek speak...

Nominalizations are expressions that are particularly challenging philosophically in that they help form singular terms that seem to refer to abstract or derived objects often considered controversial. The three standard views about the semantics of nominalizations are [1] that they map mere meanings onto objects, [2] that they refer to implicit arguments, and [3] that they introduce new object...

This paper deals with an application of automatic titling. The aim of such application is to attribute a title for a given text. So, our application relies on three very different automatic titling methods. The first one extracts relevant noun phrases for their use as a heading, the second one automatically constructs headings by selecting words appearing in the text, and, finally, the third on...

The focus of this paper is on the proper analysis of lexical and phrasal nominalizations in English and Korean that are built around an identical deverbal element. In English, as is well-known, there are both lexical and phrasal nominalizations that are built around the -ing suffixed form of the verb. In Korean too, there are both lexical and phrasal nominalizations based on the same nominalizi...