非范畴化下的英语名词形容词化现象

The Adjectivalization of English Nouns in Decategorization

英语名词的非范畴化是指在一定条件下,某些名词范畴成员逐渐失去范畴特征的过程。这些名词在重新范畴化之前处于一种不稳定的中间状态,失去了一些名词范畴的典型特征,同时获得了新范畴的某些特征。

Decategorization of English nouns is a process,during which some members of noun category gradually lose their categorial features under certain conditions.Before recategorization,those nouns arc in an unstable and intermediate state.Those nouns lose some categorial features of the noun.Meanwhile,they obtain some categorial features of the new category.