nominalisierender
Nominalisierender is a linguistic term used to describe an agent or process that nominalizes. It derives from the German verbs nominalisieren (to nominalize) and Nominalisierung (nominalization). In grammar, nominalization is the transformation of a word or a phrase into a noun or noun phrase. The form nominalisierender can function as a present participle used as an adjective to describe the process or the agent responsible for nominalization, for example in phrases like der nominalisierende Prozess or ein nominalisierender Eingriff.
There are two main strands of nominalization in German. Verbal nominalization turns verbs into nouns, as in
In use, nominalizations can increase abstraction and compactness in written language, but they also tend to
Related concepts include Nominalisierung in general and the distinction between verbal, adjectival, and clausal nominalizations. The