This book offers a corpus-based cognitive grammar account of the full range of nominalizations predicated by English deverbal nouns in -tion. Collectively, these nominalizations make up a category whose internal structure is presented in the form of a schematic network model. In this model, the nominalizations are characterized at varying levels of abstraction, from the topmost highly abstract all-embracing schema to its most specific low-level instantiations. In turn, the model's mid-level schemas embody generalizations over individual nominalization kinds distinguished on the basis of their profile, i.e. the facet of the nominalization's underlying process be it the trajector, the landmark, or the entire sequence of states making up this process which has been selected for reification.

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The Author: Michal Szawerna graduated from the Institute of English Studies at the University of Wroclaw (Poland) in 1994. In 2004 the author was awarded a doctoral degree in linguistics at the Philological Department of the University of Wroclaw. His research interests include morphological analysis conducted in the framework of cognitive grammar.

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Contents: Deverbal Nominalization Semantic Extension Conceptual Reification Schematic Network Model Corpus-based Analysis Cognitive Grammar Cognitive Linguistics Conceptualist Semantics.