Article

Name: Substantivization in the light of the synchronous transitivity theory, monograph, Novosibirsk, NSTTU, 2009

Authors: Natalia V. Maksimova

Novosibirsk Teachers’ Professional Re-Training Institute, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Review

Abstract: The monograph contains abundant language material, concerning processes of growth of object attributes in words of various parts of speech. The book review considers the questions of criteria and limits of substantivization phenomenon, of foundations of its description – both in the network of transitivity theory and in aspect of other possible approaches.

Keywords: transitivity scale, substantivates attributes, conditions and types of substantiviza-tion, objectifying, synchronous transitivity, usual and occasional substantivization

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