NOMZ YAML source
code: NOMZ
biber_number: E14
xiao_number: A1
mfte_code: NOMZ
bohmann_number: 208
name: Nominalizations
definition: >-
Nouns derived from verbs or adjectives, typically ending in -tion, -ment, -ness,
-ity (e.g., "investigation", "development", "happiness").
normalization: words
detection:
- requires:
- word
- pos
cql: '[word=".*tion|.*ment|.*ness|.*ity" & pos="NN|NNS"]'
refines: NN|NNS
description: Nominalizations by suffix. Refines NN.
- source: pybiber
requires:
- word
- pos
words:
stop:
- apartment
- apartments
- attention
- business
- businesses
- capacities
- capacity
- cities
- city
- comment
- comments
- condition
- conditions
- document
- documents
- edition
- editions
- element
- elements
- environment
- environments
- experiment
- experiments
- fiction
- fictions
- function
- functions
- humanity
- identities
- identity
- mention
- mentions
- moment
- moments
- motion
- motions
- nation
- nations
- notion
- notions
- pity
- position
- positions
- qualities
- quality
- section
- sections
- solution
- solutions
- station
- stations
- tradition
- traditions
- universities
- university
- witness
- witnesses
parts:
_base:
cql: '[word=".*tions?|.*ments?|.*ness(es)?|.*it(y|ies)" & pos="NN|NNS"]'
stop:
word_list: stop
combine: "_base & !stop"
description: >-
pybiber matches nouns ending in -tion(s), -ment(s), -ness(es), -ity/-ities,
then excludes a stoplist of words whose suffixes are coincidental
(e.g., "city", "apartment", "moment").
sources:
- biber_1988
- biber_2006
- mfte
- pybiber
- xiao_2009
- bohmann_2019
notes: >-
MFTE extended tagset includes NOMZ. Requires suffix-based heuristic or
morphological analysis.