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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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• Morphologization
  ...[analogy]] the umlaut-formation in plural forms was extended to classes of nouns which never had the '-i' plural-suffix. Thus the phonological rule which ch
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• Gender (grammar)
  ...ny languages nouns fall into three groups: masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns, each group being inflected differently. in Russian all nouns belong to one of three groups. If a noun ends in a non-palatalized consonan
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• Masculine
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• Absolute
  * Nouns: ''man'', ''table'' and ''war''
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• Concrete noun
  Examples of concrete nouns are ''apple'' and ''water''.
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• Intensional adjective
  ...temporal or modal parameter that is relevant for the interpretation of the nouns they combine with.
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• Stem
  ...g the vowel ''a'' to the root ''géphur+a-'' 'bridge', while declension II nouns are formed by adding the vowel ''o'' to the root ''hípp+o-'' 'horse'. Th
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• Stress
  ==Rules of stress placement for nouns and verbs== ===Disyllabic nouns===
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• Singular
  ...ar''' is a category of the inflectional [[dimension]] [[number]]: singular nouns (or NPs) are defined as normally denoting a single thing (or other entity).
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• Abstract noun
  Examples of abstract nouns are ''democracy'' and ''wisdom''.
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• Parasynthesis
  ...of the [[Dutch]] discontinuous nominal circumfix ''ge-..-te'' to underived nouns is an example of parasynthesis: ''berg'' 'mountain' - ''gebergte'' 'mountai
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• Animacy
  Animacy is a grammatical and/or semantic category of nouns based on how sentient or alive the referent of the noun in a given taxonomi
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• Mutation
  in the Siberian language Nivkh (or Gilyak) nouns can be derived from verbs simply by changing the initial consonant (see (i)
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• Cumulative reference
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• Morphosyntactic category
  ...s most appropriately. But since it can also be used more generally (Proper Nouns, for example, are another 'category' in conventional usage), it will be hel
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• Subtractive morphology
  The genitive plural of feminine and neuter nouns in ''-a/-o'' in Russian (''kniga'' 'book', ''mesto'' 'place') are formed wi
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• Null morpheme
  ...d showing alternate morphemes. For example, the singular number of English nouns is shown by a null morpheme that contrasts with the plural morpheme -s. ...ere are some cases in English where a null morpheme indicates plurality in nouns that take on irregular plurals.
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• Inflection
  ...nouns''). The plural forms ''dogs'' and ''nouns'' are variants of the base nouns ''dog'' and ''noun''.
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• Noun
  * a superclass consisting of nouns and adjectives; see [[noun (Latin nomen)]]
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• Category (system)
  ...s most appropriately. But since it can also be used more generally (Proper Nouns, for example, are another 'category' in conventional usage), it will be hel
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• Affix substitution
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• Endocentric compound
  ...nd also retains the primary syntactic features of ''boat'', since both are nouns. Hence, a ''steamboat''is a particular type of ''boat'', where the class of
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• Umlaut
  A well-known example is [[German]] umlaut. Plural nouns can be formed in several (unpredictable) ways. One possibility is fronting
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• Nominalization
  ...rammar since the late sixties. Especially the differences between abstract nouns such as ''criticism'' and [[gerund]]s such as ''criticizing'' played a cent
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• Geminate
  ...logical process typically present in English, but can be found in compound nouns.
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• Recursion
  ...lish is recursive as is shown by the examples in (i): the concatenation of nouns can go on forever.
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• Accidental gap
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• Category-system
  The most important category-systems are (for nouns:) [[case]], [[number]], (possessor) [[person]], (for nominal modifiers and
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• Noun (Latin nomen)
  ....e. (in Latin and similar Indo-European languages) a class comprising both nouns and adjectives.
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• Speech-act participant
  In [[Sahaptin]], the [[ergative case]] appears on 3rd person nouns only if the object is a speech-act participant (Rude 1997):
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• Kildin Saami morphology
  Nouns in Kildin Saami belong to different inflectional classes and inflect for tw ...s, mostly the 1st person singular, occur only in a few lexicalized kinship nouns (e.g. {\it jānna} ‘my mother, mommy’).
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• Theme vowel
  In [[Ancient Greek]], nouns are grouped into three declensional classes. If a noun belongs to the first
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• No Phrase Constraint
  The derivational suffix ''-hood'' can be attached to nouns (e.g. ''mother-hood''), but not to phrases such as ''single mother'' (''*si
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• Haplology
  ...' reactions''). In Dutch, the noun-forming suffix -''eling'' may attach to nouns, verbs and adjectives (''dorpeling'' 'villager', ''zuigeling'' 'infant', ''
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• Person
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• Typological consistency
  ...ival, and genitival expressions follow nouns; in OV languages they precede nouns." (Lehmann 1973:48). Apart from the tendency to conform to one head-type wi
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• Flag
  :::*''"5. Flagging: Tzotzil uses prepositions and so-called 'relational nouns' to mark NPs for their grammatical or thematic relations — to FLAG them,
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• Auxiliary verb
  ...are used interchangeably, because grammarians do not talk about "auxiliary nouns", "auxiliary adjectives", or other kinds of auxiliary words.
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• Article
  ...alize from pronouns meaning 'a certain'. As articles necessarily accompany nouns, it is in these cases it is necessary to investigate whether the marker can
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• Truncation
  ...s ''nomin+ate:nomin+ee, evacu+ate:evacu+ee'' are semantically related, the nouns ending in -''ee'' lack the verbal suffix -''ate'', and if it is assumed tha
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• Extrametricality
  in English nouns the final syllable does not count for stress assignment and can be consider
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• Mapping Principle (in morphology)
  ...-'' selects adjectives and means 'NOT', and that ''-ity'' creates abstract nouns from adjectives. Furthermore, at the phono-morphological level hierarchical
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• Particle
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• Pro-Drop-Parameter
  *P. Panagiotidis, Pronouns, Clitics and Empty Nouns: 'Pronominality' and Licensing in Syntax. Amsterdam 2002.
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• Meaning
  ...eaning]]): Lexical meaning concerns the major parts-of-speech, i.e. [[noun|nouns]], [[verb|verbs]], [[adjective|adjectives]] and [[adverb|adverbs]]. Their m
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• Richard M. Hogg
  1997 "The morphology and dialect of Old English disyllabic nouns." In R. Hickey and S. Puppel (eds.), Language History and Linguistic Modell
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• Case
  ::*''“Case: an inflectional [[dimension]] of nouns that serves to code the noun phrase's semantic role.”'' (Haspelmath 2002: ...used only where clear case morphemes are discoverable in the inflection of nouns.”'' (Fillmore 1968:19)
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• Profile (in Cognitive Grammar)
  ...nd [[adposition]]) differ semantically in the kind of entity they profile. Nouns (and other nominal entities such as [[pronoun]]s, [[NP]]s, etc.) profile a
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• Tsez
  ===Nouns=== Nouns can either be singular or plural. The plural is formed by adding ''-bi'' to
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• Numerus
  * Lasersohn, Peter. 2011. Mass Nouns and Plurals. In: Maienborn, Claudia, Heusinger, Klaus von & Portner, Paul (
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• Swedish Phonology
  * plural nouns with mutated vowel in the third declination group, e.g. ''fötter'' d) Nouns:
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• Irish
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• Tomislav Maretić
  ...ext of the New Testament, the occurrence and repetition of specific proper nouns may significantly change the frequency structure; for the same reason, he
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• Register (discourse)
  ...ences or similarities. “Registers share many linguistic features – such as nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. – and they are distinguished by the re
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• Kaili (en)
  ...are indicated by syntax and verbal inflection, but not morphologically on nouns/NPs.
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• Cohesion
  ...iteration and collocation. Reiteration has to do with the use of [[general nouns]] to create a cohesive effect by replacing one element by another in the on
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• James D. McCawley/publications
  *1982e. Review of A. Gupta, The logic of common nouns. Journal of Philosophy 79.512-17.
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