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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The term '''substantive''' has sometimes been used in the sense of [[noun]], i.e. the [[word class]] whose members prototypically denote things and people. In several European languages other than English, this usage is normal.<br />
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===Comments===<br />
In a terminological tradition going back to antiquity, Latin ''nomen'' refers to (what we would now generally think of as) a super-class consisting of [[noun]]s and [[adjective]]s. ''Nomina'' were defined by their ''inflection''al properties, which are very similar in Latin. In this tradition, two subclasses of nomina are distinguished: ''nomina substantiva'' ('substantive nouns') and ''nomina adjectiva'' ('adjective nouns').<br />
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===Polysemy===<br />
Confusingly, ''substantive'' is sometimes also used to refer to<br />
* a super-class consisting of [[noun]]s and [[adjective]]s; see [[substantive (noun or adjective)]].<br />
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:::*''"English scholars generally use the word noun for what is here called substantive; but the terminology here adopted gives us on the one hand the adjective ''nominal'' for both classes, and on the other hand the verb ''substantivize'' when we speak, for instance, of a substantivized adjective."'' (Jespersen 1924:72)<br />
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===Synonym===<br />
* [[noun]]<br />
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===Reference===<br />
*[[Otto Jespersen|Jespersen, Otto]]. 1924. ''The philosophy of grammar.'' London: Allen & Unwin.<br />
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===other languages===<br />
*German [[Substantiv]]<br />
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