2402WE3_Unit09 (Week 09) Preparing for Task 2
20241211_1415

TOPIC 1:

*Nominal style / nominalization / grammatical metaphor

FROM:
relation          process      participant   <--- (SEMANTICS)
    |                        |                     |
conjunction  verb            noun               <--- (GRAMMAR)
         
TO:
relation          process      participant    <--- (SEMANTICS)
     |                       |   
    verb            noun                                    <--- (GRAMMAR)     


TOPIC 2:

*Genre: "Procedure" e.g. recipe	








*Nominal style, etc (exercise sheet):

Rewrite each sentence according to the pattern given, by nominalizing the events portrayed in the individual clauses and changing the conjunctive relation into a verbal group, thus producing one simple sentence in Nominalstil.

1. a. 
After 
the FDP 
won 
the election, 
the SPD 
merged with 
the CDU.


The FDP's victory
was followed by 
the merger of the SPD with the CDU


b. 



2. a. 
Before 
Trump won the Electoral College vote, 
the Democrats had effectively collapsed. 


b. 
Trump's success in the Electoral College vote
was preceded by 
the effective collapse of the Democrats.

The effective collapse of ...
led to --	> followed / was preceded by 

3. a. 
Because 
Le Pen won the election, 
France abolished the euro and reintroduced the franc. 


b. 

4. a. At the same time as 
Le Pen won in France, 
the Corbynistas staged a successful coup in the U.K. 

b. 


(einhergehen mit .... 
ging mit ... einher)



The original participants (in verbal style) can now appear as post-modifiers (qualifiers) of the noun that expresses the process. This can lead to ambiguity:

the visiting of relatives:
(genitivus subjectivus:) relatives visit us
(genitivus objectivus:)  we visit relatives

relatives' visiting:
(genitivus subjectivus:) relatives visit us
?

"relative visiting" 
(a compound, so stress on the first element:
RELATIVE visiting)

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Working in small groups, transform the following from nominal style to verbal style, then be ready to
share your solutions with the rest of the class.

1. The guests’ dinner of roast beef and ice cream was followed by a gentle swim.

2. The fifth day saw them at the summit.


(My guitar broke a string.
An meiner Gitarre ist eine Saite gerissen.
This hotel forbids dogs.
In diesem Hotel sind Hunde nicht gestattet.)


3. He has a comfortable income.

4. Advances in technology are speeding up the writing of business programs.

5. To add alcohol impairment to the problem of inexperience is an invitation to disaster.

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Working in small groups, transform the following from verbal style to nominal style, then be ready to
share your solutions with the rest of the class.

1. He bathes every evening.

cf:
Jemanden besuchen --> jemandem einen Besuch abstatten.

2. They danced quickly in Hungarian style twice more.


3. I noted that the light had been refracted by the prism.

4. If you invest in a rail facility, this implies that you are going to be committed for a long term.

5. In the early days when engineers had to make a bridge across a valley and the valley had a river flowing through it, they often built viaducts, which were constructed of masonry and had numerous arches in them; and many of these viaducts became notable.


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*Instructions for Task 2 
   --- cf recipes
   --- Grammar and Meaning appendix
   --- instruction sheet with deadlines etc.
