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• Polyfunctionality
  # deverbal agent nouns (''werker'' 'worker), # deverbal instrument nouns (''wekker'' 'alarm clock'),
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• Collective noun (in English)
  In [[English]] linguistics, the term '''collective noun''' is used for nouns referring to a group of people that show variable [[agreement]] (singular o Nouns such as ''committee, family, team'' allow variable agreement:
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• Collective noun
  :::*''"collective nouns are nouns lexically referring to a (denotational) multiplicity that — in some way o *Joosten, Frank et al. 2007. Dutch collective nouns and conceptual profiling. ''Linguistics'' 45.1. 85-132.
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• Gerund
  ...ponding verbs. Moreover, gerunds appear in syntactic positions typical for nouns, although their behaviour is strictly speaking verbal in nature. ...inalizations in -''ing'', like verbs, can be modified by adverbials, while nouns can only be modified by adjectives (cf. (iii)):
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• Mass noun
  In English, mass nouns cannot be pluralized (cf. ''*milks'') and cannot be used with the [[indefin Mass nouns like ''cattle'' and ''furniture'' are sometimes called [[collective noun]]s
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• Substantive (continental)
  ...a substantiva'' ('substantive nouns') and ''nomina adjectiva'' ('adjective nouns').
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• Declension
  '''Declension''' is a traditional term indicating that nouns can be classified according to the shape of the inflectional endings they m ...y two words belonging to First declension, which usually contains feminine nouns. Please note that the macrons are omitted in these examples:
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• One-affix-one-rule hypothesis
  ..., glider'') since the circumstances under which agent nouns and instrument nouns are formed are identical. The one-affix-one-rule hypothesis says that we ha
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• Plural
  ...ing (or more than one entity). If the language also has a [[dual]], plural nouns denote more than two things or entities.
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• Diminutive
  '''Diminutive''' is a term for a special type of nouns the meaning of which can be characterized as SMALL N (where N is the predic ...suffix ''-tje'' (viz. ''-pje'', ''-kje'', ''-etje'', ''-je'', ''-tje'') to nouns. (i) gives a number of relevant examples:
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• Relational
  ...roperty of predicates, esp. those denoted by [[noun]]s and [[adjective]]s. Nouns and adjectives is said to be relational when they require an argument in or
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• Allomorphy
  (a) /s/ after nouns ending in a voiceless consonant (''cats'' /kats/), (b) /z/ after nouns ending in a voiced consonant (''dogs'' /dogz/), and
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• Relational noun
  ...]s and [[case]]s in other languages. Often the boundary between relational nouns and [[adposition]]s is difficult to draw.
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• Unitary Base Hypothesis
  ...an affix to both the class of 'transite verbs' and the class of 'abstract nouns' are ruled out.
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• Substantive (noun or adjective)
  ...substantive''' is occasionally used to denote the word class consisting of nouns and adjectives, sometimes defined by the feature [+N]' (=[[noun]]). ...re that in an older tradition, there was a term for a class including both nouns and adjectives, but this term is [[noun (Latin nomen)]].)
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• Definite article
  A '''definite article''' is a morpheme which accompanies nouns and which codes [[definiteness]] or [[specificity]], like ''the'' in Englis
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• Circumfix
  ...ive nouns may be formed by adding the circumfix ''ge-...-te'' to underived nouns as in the examples:
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• Plurale tantum
  ...e formed by adding the suffix -''en'' (''hond-honden'' 'dog(s)'). But some nouns such as ''hersenen'' 'brains', ''annalen'' 'annals' and ''watten'' 'cotton
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• Lexical category
  ...bordinator]]s, [[adverb]]s, etc., whereas lexical categories only comprise nouns, verbs and adjectives. Thus, ''lexical category'' is often contrasted with Baker, Mark. 2003. ''Lexical categories: nouns, verbs and adjectives.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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• Gender
  *In [[grammar]], it refers to a subdivision of nouns that is relevant for grammatical [[agreement]]; see [[gender (grammar)]]
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