pronominalizationn.
/prə(ʊ)ˌnɒmᵻnl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /prə(ʊ)ˌnɒmᵻnəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˈˌproʊˌnɑmənələˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˈˌproʊˌnɑmənəˌlaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ Grammar.
The process or fact of replacing a noun or noun phrase by a pronoun; (also) spec. (in some Tibeto-Burman languages) the process whereby a pronoun is attached to the end of a verb to mark the person of the subject, and sometimes of the object.
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1857 B. H. Hodgson in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1856 25 508 The verb is given in the objective or agento-objective form = the passive, the active voice no longer showing clearly the pronomenalization.
1921 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 41 61 The pronominalization..is..confined to words of family relationship, parts of the body, and mental conceptions—all of them expressing qualities..which can not be separated from their owner.
1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax iii. 145 Sameness of reference requires reflexivization of the second Noun Phrase (this is also true of pronominalization).
1971 J. P. Thorne in A. J. Aitken et al. Edinb. Stud. Eng. & Sc. 59 The rules governing pronominalisation require either that the pronoun occurs in the deep structure of the sentence or that the deep structure contains two identical noun phrases, in which case a transformational rule rewrites one of them as a pronoun in the surface structure.
1991 R. M. W. Dixon New Approach to Eng. Gram. ii. 63 Pronominalisation can apply forwards or backwards into a subordinate clause..‘If he comes here, John will get a shock’ and ‘After she lost her keys, Mary couldn't get into the house’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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