VERB TO NOUN CONVERSION MODEL IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Abstract

Annotation: This work is a study of how words that are usually actions can become things in English language. It looks at the different ways that this change can happen, such as adding a suffix, changing the stress pattern, or keeping the same form. It also explains how this change affects the meaning and the grammar of the words, such as making them more abstract, countable or uncountable, or modifying them with adjectives or determiners. The work also explores what this change means for how new words are created, how words are related to each other and how language changes. The work is based on a collection of modern English texts from different kinds of writing and speaking, and uses both careful observation and numerical analysis to understand the phenomenon.