Nominalizations Flashcards
I don’t get any recognition
How would you like to be recognized?
Nominalizations are those words that have been transformed from process words (verbs) into nouns. An ongoing process thereby becomes a thing or an event
Now put a chair, then a cat, then your mother in the wheelbarrow. Now try putting failure, virtue, projections, and confusion into that wheelbarrow
Check whether the event word fits into the syntactic frame, an ongoing ________. If it does, it is a nominalization.
To transform a nominalization back into a process word, use it as a verb in the response
Pay attention.
What do you want me to attend to?
Nominalizations are those words that have been transformed from process words (verbs) into nouns. An ongoing process thereby becomes a thing or an event
Now put a chair, then a cat, then your mother in the wheelbarrow. Now try putting failure, virtue, projections, and confusion into that wheelbarrow
Check whether the event word fits into the syntactic frame, an ongoing ________. If it does, it is a nominalization.
To transform a nominalization back into a process word, use it as a verb in the response
I regret my decision.
Does anything stop you from re-deciding?
Nominalizations are those words that have been transformed from process words (verbs) into nouns. An ongoing process thereby becomes a thing or an event
Now put a chair, then a cat, then your mother in the wheelbarrow. Now try putting failure, virtue, projections, and confusion into that wheelbarrow
Check whether the event word fits into the syntactic frame, an ongoing ________. If it does, it is a nominalization.
To transform a nominalization back into a process word, use it as a verb in the response
I want help
How do you want to be helped?
Nominalizations are those words that have been transformed from process words (verbs) into nouns. An ongoing process thereby becomes a thing or an event
Now put a chair, then a cat, then your mother in the wheelbarrow. Now try putting failure, virtue, projections, and confusion into that wheelbarrow
Check whether the event word fits into the syntactic frame, an ongoing ________. If it does, it is a nominalization.
To transform a nominalization back into a process word, use it as a verb in the response
States of excellence are really attractive to me
Who, excelling in what way, is attractive to you?
Demonstrate for me how you would act in a state of
excellence.(you keep the nominalization, but
recover the deleted information about process nonverbally)
Once we take care of the confusion in my division, productivity will increase.
Who is confused about what specifically?
Who will produce more of what?
You could also ask about the nominalization “division.”
“Who is in your division, and what does it do in relation to
the larger organization
Nominalization explaination
-tion, -dom, -ence, -ance, -edge, -ity, -ess, etc.
Nominalization Examples
Nominalization:
Process Question:
Frustration
What/who frustrates whom?
Happiness
Who is happy about what?
Productivity
Who produces what, how?
Reliability
Who relies on whom to do what?
Who is reliable to do what?
Freedom
Who is free from (or to do) what?
Anger
Who is angry about (at) what?
Relationship
Who relates to whom, how?
Double Nominalization:
Skill Level
Who is how skilled at what? How do
you know that?
How well can you do that?
Learning Disability
Who can’t (doesn’t) learn what?
What do they do instead
National Security
How do you want to keep our
country secure from what?
Obsessive-
Compulsive
Who is obsessed/compulsed to do
what?
Reaction-formation
Couldn’t you be a little more vague?
Minimal brain
dysfunction
How
is
this
person’s
brain
dysfunctioning? How do you know?
Nominalizations with no
Commonly-used process form:
Wind
How is the air moving?
Mind
How do you think about events?
Religion
Tell me what means a lot to you?
Libido
What do you get excited about?
Marriage
(relationship)
What are you and your spouse doing
that you like?
Self-esteem
What is it about yourself that you
feel good about?
Pain
What hurts, how? What hurt you?
