Complex sentence: Adjectival Nouns can take on different lexical roles in each language, from transforming to nouns (in the case of English) or to verbs (in the case of Japanese).
Split into simpler sentences: Adjectival Nouns can take on different lexical roles in each language. For example, they can transform into nouns (as in the case of English) or into verbs (as in the case of Japanese).