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PRONUNCIATION OF SUBSTANTIVIZATION

substantivization  [ˌsʌbstəntɪvaɪˈzeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUBSTANTIVIZATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Substantivization is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SUBSTANTIVIZATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Nominalization

In linguistics, nominalization or nominalisation is the use of a verb, an adjective, or an adverb as the head of a noun phrase, with or without morphological transformation. The term can also refer specifically to the process of producing a noun from another part of speech via the addition of derivational affixes. Nominalization happens in languages around the world. Some languages simply allow verbs to be used as nouns, while others require some form of morphological transformation. English has cases of both.

Definition of substantivization in the English dictionary

The definition of substantivization in the dictionary is the process of making a word other than a noun play the grammatical role of a noun in a sentence.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUBSTANTIVIZATION


authorization
ˌɔːθəraɪˈzeɪʃən
characterization
ˌkærɪktəraɪˈzeɪʃən
civilization
ˌsɪvɪlaɪˈzeɪʃən
customization
ˌkʌstəmaɪˈzeɪʃən
globalization
ˌɡləʊbəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
hospitalisation
ˌhɒspɪtəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
hospitalization
ˌhɒspɪtəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
hybridization
ˌhaɪbrɪdaɪˈzeɪʃən
localization
ˌləʊkəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
novelization
ˌnɒvəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
optimisation
ˌɒptɪmaɪˈzeɪʃən
optimization
ˌɒptɪmaɪˈzeɪʃən
organisation
ˌɔːɡənaɪˈzeɪʃən
organization
ˌɔːɡənaɪˈzeɪʃən
realization
ˌrɪəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
specialization
ˌspeʃəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
stabilization
ˌsteɪbɪlaɪˈzeɪʃən
synchronization
ˌsɪŋkrənaɪˈzeɪʃən
utilization
ˌjuːtɪlaɪˈzeɪʃən
visualization
ˌvɪʒʊəlaɪˈzeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUBSTANTIVIZATION

substantialist
substantiality
substantialize
substantially
substantialness
substantiate
substantiation
substantiative
substantiator
substantival
substantivally
substantive
substantive agreements
substantive rank
substantively
substantiveness
substantivisation
substantivise
substantivity
substantivize

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUBSTANTIVIZATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of substantivization in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «substantivization» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SUBSTANTIVIZATION

Find out the translation of substantivization to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of substantivization from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «substantivization» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

substantivization
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

substantivization
570 millions of speakers

English

substantivization
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

substantivization
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

substantivization
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

субстантивация
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

substantivization
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

substantivization
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

substantivization
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Substantivisasi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Substantivierung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

substantivization
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

substantivization
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Substantivization
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

substantivization
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

substantivization
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रामाणिकपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

substantivization
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

substantivization
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

substantivization
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

субстантивация
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

substantivization
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

substantivization
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

substantivization
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

substantivization
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

substantivization
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of substantivization

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBSTANTIVIZATION»

The term «substantivization» is barely ever used and occupies the 209.747 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBSTANTIVIZATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «substantivization» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «substantivization» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about substantivization

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUBSTANTIVIZATION»

Discover the use of substantivization in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to substantivization and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Grammar of Lezgian
This leaves us with only two major types of adjectival inflection: substantivization of adjectives and adjectival adverbs. 8.1.1. Substantivization An adjective may occur on its own as the head of a noun phrase only when substantivized.
Martin Haspelmath, 1993
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Manifestations of Reason: Life, Historicity, Culture Reason, ...
The possibility of transposing a determinative "is" judgment into a determinative " has" judgment is contingent upon substantivization. An originally dependent determination (e.g. red) may become an independent determination (e.g. red color) ...
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, 1993
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Morfologjia:
4.4 Substantivization of Adjectives As was noted earlier in this chapter, the adjective takes the declensional endings of a noun when it occurs before the noun. The adjective also takes these endings when it appears without a noun. A similar ...
Leonard Newmark, 1982
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Relativization and Nominalized Clauses in Huallaga (Huanuco) ...
The approach that has been pursued here for Quechua is to downplay such a syntactic distinction, speaking rather of "substantivization." Now clearly, HLRC's could not exist if the substantivization of (the main verb of) S/rel were to result in a  ...
David Weber, 1983
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A Grammar of Huallaga (Huánuco) Quechua
8.14.1. Substantivization with -q 115 389 Y mayur-nin yayku-sha. Y huk hachaasu qo-sha chay and older-3P enter-3PERF and a axe: blow give-3PERF that pufiu-yka-sha-n-ta. Y chay-man-qa tiya-n-ta sleep-sub-3P-OBJ and that- GOAL-TOP ...
David Weber, 1989
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Explanation and Linguistic Change
That is, the female inhabitative Amsterdamse is thought to have an adjectival base. viz. Amsterdam-s (which is the adjective which goes with Amsterdam 'id.'). As the phenomenon of substantivization is a well-established and time-honoured  ...
Willem F. Koopman, 1987
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Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and ...
Other grammatical categories can also perform nominalizing functions, and nominalization constructions can be identified by a variety of substantivization processes. These are discussed in the subsequent sections. 3.3 Substantivization ...
Foong Ha Yap, Karen Grunow-Hårsta, Janick Wrona, 2011
8
Creation and Tradition in Language
Morphological derivation. It remains to make Schmidt's theory more explicit on the morphological side. Pétros is the masculine substantivization of the ro- adjective formed on the IE verbal root *pet- « fly », causative « throw ». Now each of ...
J. Peter Maher, 1977
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Proceedings of the First International Conference on ...
In Manchu, substantivization is realized in two ways: analytically and synthetically (Avrorin 2000: 196-197). Analytical substantivization consists of a participle and the word ba ("place"), while synthetical substantivization consists of a present or ...
Carsten Naeher, Giovanni Stary, Michael Weiers, 2004
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Ancient Greek Scholarship: A Guide to Finding, Reading, and ...
Substantivization. Instead of nouns, substantivized adjectives in the neuter are very often used; while for Euripides it may have been true that (Bacch. 395), for some grammarians there is clearly no difference between “correctness” and “the  ...
Eleanor Dickey, 2007

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUBSTANTIVIZATION»

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Our habitat: house
... hospitalis turned into a noun (the technical term for such a change in grammatical usage is substantivization; thus, hospitale is a substantivized adjective). «OUPblog, Jan 15»

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