Nominalization and Its Various Functions in Liangmai

<p>Nominalization is highly productive and widely attested in normal discourse and speech in Liangmai. Both lexical and clausal nominalizations are found in the language. Different nominalizing affixes and its functions are discussed. Nominalized form of verb functions as verbal noun, gerund, infinitive, adjectival and agentive. Nominalization also produces various types of syntactic structures, such as nominalized clause, relative clause and complement clause. The nominalizer -bo is most productive and is plurifunctional.</p>