A Comparative Study of Adjective Nominalization in English and Chinese

摘要

It is generally recognized that nominalization, the use of a word which is not a noun as a noun, functions as a natural section of language, among which adjective nominalization serves as a requisite. This phenomenon can be frequently found in both Chinese and English. This paper comparatively studies adjective nominalization in the two languages, and discovers that the phenomenon in two languages shares similarities in syntactic functions, but differs in terms of the composition pattern in that for?mation in English is more various than Chinese, that is, in English it can be achieved either with or without the assistance of suf?fixes, yet that in Chinese is realized merely through zero suffixes.