非范畴化下的英语名词形容词化现象

摘要

英语名词的非范畴化是指在一定条件下，某些名词范畴成员逐渐失去范畴特征的过程。这些名词在重新范畴化之前处于一种不稳定的中间状态，失去了一些名词范畴的典型特征，同时获得了新范畴的某些特征。%Decategorization of English nouns is a process ,during w hich some members of noun cate-gory gradually lose their categorial features under certain conditions . Before recategorization ,those nouns arc in an unstable and intermediate state .T hose nouns lose some categorial features of the noun . Meanwhile ,they obtain some categorial features of the new category .