When you want to associate a noun を します action (what English-speakers would
call "verbing a noun") with a specific noun, what particles are used and
where?

For example, if I was saying "I study", you could say 勉強{べんきょう}をします. But if
you were wanting to say what you're studying, would you move the particle を,
so that it'd be 日本語を[勉強]{べんきょう}します, or would you keep the particle を, and add
a の between the additional noun and the verbed noun, so that it'd be
日本語の[勉強]{べんきょう}をします?
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How do I add an object to noun を します verbs?
Some nouns can be transformed into verbs by adding をする.  
The resulting verbs can be transitive (e.g. 勉強をする, to study) or intransitive
(e.g. 旅行をする, to travel). If you specify a direct object for the resulting
verb, you have to have identify it with を, so you have to remove the other を
before する (because only one direct object per verb is possible).

> Right:スペイン語を勉強しています  
>  Wrong: スペイン語を勉強 **を** しています

If you don't use direct object for the resulting verb, you can keep or drop を
before する at will.

> Right: 毎日勉強しています = 毎日勉強をしています  
>  Right: 旅行したい = 旅行をしたい

Constructions like 英語の勉強をする = 英語の勉強する are grammatically correct, but rarely
used.
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As common as nounする is, する verbs all decided. In the case of nounする it can be
considered as a single word, not as 2 words.

That is to say that you can't just take any noun and add する to make it a verb,
only some nouns work like this.

To be clear 勉強する is a verb on it's own.

However pretty much any word with an action/verbal component can be made into
a verb by using をする. Since 日本語の勉強 is a noun, but not a noun on the list of する
verbs, you must use をする.
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勉強 is a noun and する is a verb. And 勉強する is a verb because we sometimes make
verbs like 勉強する by setting する behind a noun.

日本語を勉強する=日本語+を(postpositional particle for object)+勉強する(verb)

日本語の勉強をする=日本語+の(postpositional particle which means "of")+勉強(noun)+
を(postpositional particle for object)+する(verb)

The above two sentence is natural. However 日本語を勉強をする is unnatural. How about
日本語の勉強する? I think this sentence is grammarwise incorrect but it is sometimes
used colloquially. It is the one which is clipped "を".
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