Nouns

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Introduction to Linguistics Mind Map on Nouns, created by mnmless on 30/01/2014.
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Nouns
  1. The name of a person, place or thing.

    Annotations:

    • Nouns make up approximately a third of all English words; Tom, London, apple.
    1. Abstract Nouns

      Annotations:

      • Nouns that do not denote physical objects such as honesty and presence.
      1. Morphological Features

        Annotations:

        • Generally have forms that contrast one occurrence  of a physical object (singular) with two or more (plural): chair, chairs / engine, engines However there are irregularities when counting specific nouns, opposed to adding the suffix '-s' when counting more than one child, the word used is children.
        1. Syntactic Criteria

          Annotations:

          • When nouns combine with other words to from phrases, they most frequently combine with determiners
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