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6. FINDINGS<br />

Table 20. Overall figures for –ing and Romance nominalizations in medical texts,<br />

according to subgenre (normalized frequencies per 10,000 words in brackets)<br />

Remedy Surgical Academic Total<br />

books treatises treatises<br />

–Ing nom. 272 (56.6) 318 (65.2) 386 (81.1) 976 (67.6)<br />

Romance 163 (33.9) 441 (90.4) 517 (108.6) 1,121 (77.6)<br />

nom.<br />

Total 435 (90.5) 759 (155.6) 903 (189.8) 2,097 (145.2)<br />

Figure 8. Distribution of –ing and Romance nominalizations, according to subgenre<br />

As seen in Table 20, Romance nominalizations have a normalized frequency of only 33.9<br />

in remedy books, while –ing nominalizations are much more frequent (normalized<br />

frequency: 56.6). In surgical and academic treatises the opposite tendency is found, with a<br />

higher frequency of Romance than native nominalizations, indeed, more than three times<br />

higher than for remedy books, having relative frequencies of 90.4 (for surgical treatises)<br />

and 108.6 (for academic treatises). These differences in the proportional distribution of<br />

Romance and –ing nominalizations in the three categories of medical texts are shown to be<br />

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