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Rare is the big-budget adventure, however, that retains a linguist‎ specializing in syntax, morphology, ergativity and nominalization.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2016

The nominalization rule takes a perfectly spry verb and embalms it into a lifeless noun by adding a suffix like -ance, -ment, -ation, or -ing.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Together with verbal coffins like model and level in which writers entomb their actors and actions, the English language provides them with a dangerous weapon called nominalization: making something into a noun.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker