Deverbal noun
Grammar term
Deverbal nouns are nouns that are derived from verbs or verb phrases.
Formation
Hausa
Verbal nouns and deverbal nouns are distinct syntactic word classes. Functionally, deverbal nouns operate as autonomous common nouns,[1] while verbal nouns retain verbal characteristics.[clarification needed]
French
There are two connotations of the deverbal nouns: the one formed without any suffix,[example needed] or any noun descending from a verb.[2]
See also
- Denominal verb
- Gerund
- Verbal noun
References
Further reading
- A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. Longman Publication. Page. 1288 (Chapter 17)
- Huddleston, Rodney (27 September 1984). Introduction to the Grammar of English. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-16578-5. OCLC 818234224.
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Lexical categories and their features
- Abstract / Concrete
- Adjectival
- Agent
- Animacy
- Bare
- Collective
- Countable
- Initial-stress-derived
- Mass
- Noun adjunct
- Proper
- Relational
- Strong / Weak
- Verbal
- Classifier
- Complementizer
- Conjunction
- Copula
- Coverb
- Interjection
- Preverb
- Procedure word
- Pro-form
- Prop-word
- Syntax–semantics interface
- Yes and no
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