- The
syntactic occurrence of
nouns differs among languages. In English,
prototypical nouns are
common nouns or
proper nouns that can
occur with determiners...
- Everglades, the Azores, the Pleiades).
Proper nouns can also
occur in
secondary applications, for
example modifying nouns (the
Mozart experience; his
Azores adventure)...
-
qualities of the
entities denoted by
those nouns. In
languages with
grammatical gender, most or all
nouns inherently carry one
value of the grammatical...
-
understanding of phrases, the
nouns and
pronouns in bold in the
following sentences are
noun phrases (as well as
nouns or pronouns): He saw someone. Milk...
- A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Usage of
collective nouns Notes Further reading External links The
terms in this
table apply to many...
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Deverbal nouns are
nouns that are
derived from
verbs or verb phrases.
Verbal nouns and
deverbal nouns are
distinct syntactic word classes. Functionally...
-
Uncountable nouns are
distinguished from
count nouns.
Given that
different languages have
different grammatical features, the
actual test for
which nouns are...
-
semantics of
count nouns and m****
nouns. Some languages, such as
Mandarin Chinese,
treat all
nouns as m****
nouns, and need to make use of a
noun classifier (see...
-
agreement with
collective count nouns differently. For example,
users of
British English generally accept that
collective nouns take
either singular or plural...
- In linguistics, a
noun class is a
particular category of
nouns. A
noun may
belong to a
given class because of the
characteristic features of its referent...
