NOMINALISER  

PARTICLE CAUSING something to BECOME NOUN:nominal. GRAMMAR[]
Hypernym
  • PARTICLEA WORD that NOT VERBAL AND NOT NOMINAL. [NOTE THAT THE GRAMMATICAL PARTICLES HAVE NOT BEEN FOCUSSED SO FAR IN THE SYSTEM AND NO SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS HAS BEEN APPLIED SO FAR.]
    • WORDSOUND IMAGE of a CONCEPT. (Leibniz, Couturat p. 432)
      • SOUNDWHAT CAN be HEARD.
        • HEARPERCEIVE SOUND....
Old Chinese Criteria
'that S' (nominalising and sometimes also topicalising a whole sentence)

Modern Chinese Criteria
rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／ LU JIANMING

    Words

    之  zhī OC: kljɯ MC: tɕɨ 136 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • npro.postN:adNabN=time近日之受“the accepting it today": the Nab-ing at the time of N[TOPIC]
    • npro.postN:adNabpivot使穀祿多少厚薄之稱 "make the amount of salary to be appropriate": nominaliser of a (normally unnominalised) clause under a pivotal verbLZ
    • npro.postN:adV>NabEXCLAMATORY予之不仁也 'oh how wicked the people are': marker of nominalisation in emphatic exclamatory clausesLZ
    • npro.postN:adV>NabN SUBJECT of V自夫子之死也　“since the death of the master“CH
    • npro.postN:adV>NabNab=nominalised V忘身之老 "forget that one is old": nominaliser converting a sentence with a verbal predicate into an abstract nominalisation (sometimes best rendered in English not with a nominalisation but a that-clause when in object position)
    • npro.postN:adV>NabSUBJECT N, pronominal V>Nab王之於國也 "the king's relation to his state' idiomatic nominaliser of a "preposition" phrase
    • npro.postNpr.adV>NabNpr AGENT of V孔子之死也 "the death of Confucius": the V-ing of NprCH
    • npropostN:adV>NabNab=passive nominalised VP德之不脩 "virtue's not being cultivated" Nab is passive: 之 converts a passive N V sentence into an abstract nominalisation of its content 
    • npropostV>Nab1.adV>Nab2One V>Nab subject with its V>Nab predicate nominalisedV>Nab predicate nominalisedCH
    其  qí OC: ɡɯ MC: gɨ 47 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • npro+Vt=其所 what the subject Vt-sCH
    • npro.adN{PRED}nominaliser: 睹其子方也 "saw that he has Zifang": that npro is (an) NCH
    • npro.adVnominaliser其來 "his coming" npro nominalises a verb phrase it precedes
    • npro{SUBJ}+V{PRED}nominalisersomeone; indefinite subject of nominalised or embedded sentence
    • npro{SUBJ}+V{PRED}subject=nonrefdummy subject of a topicalised expression 其為NP也
    攸  yōu OC: k-lɯw MC: jɨu 5 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • npro{OBJ}+Vtobjectpre-classical pronoun, here in the function similar to the classic 所
    也  yě OC: lalʔ MC: jɣɛ 5 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • ppostadSnominaliserpost-sentential topic marker, marker of sentence topics

    Existing SW for

    Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: