Noun class information

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...

linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related...

considered a subclass of nouns. Every language has various linguistic and grammatical distinctions between nouns and verbs. Word classes (parts of speech) were...

Fula noun class system and the marking of gender is done with adjectives rather than class markers. Noun classes are marked by suffixes on nouns. These...

has 17 noun classes. Class 1 (prefix mũ-) comprises animate/human nouns and is singular, while class 2 (prefix a-) comprises animate/human nouns but is...

precedes the noun it modifies. In Bats, as in its closest relatives Chechen and Ingush, the number four (Dʕivʔ) begins with a noun-class marker, represented...

speech; see below under Derivation). Each noun belongs to one of several noun classes and the knowledge of noun classes and their concords is pivotal to composing...

gendered pronouns, but no longer has grammatical gender in the sense of noun class distinctions.) Kalasha Khowar Kurdish (Central and Southern Dialects only...

'their' (Class II, plural possessed noun) Yange 'my', yo 'your', etc. (Class III, singular possessed noun) Etc. There are also a few nouns that take...

Look up count noun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In linguistics, a count noun (also countable noun) is a noun that can be modified by a quantity...

æppla Root nouns are a small class of nouns which, in Proto-Germanic, had ended in a consonant without any intervening vowel. These nouns undergo i-umlaut...

independent postposed determiners that agreed with the noun class: CL-Noun CL-Det → CL-Noun-CL → Noun-CL Comparison of basic vocabulary words of the Senegambian...

non-diminutive nouns in the above examples belong to noun class III, while their diminutives belong to noun class IV. This difference in noun class is reflected...

from other languages. Chechen nouns are divided into six lexically arbitrary noun classes. Morphologically, noun classes may be indexed by changes in the...

Pulaar contains 21 noun classes. These noun classes can commonly be observed by looking at the suffix of a noun. For example, a noun that is the result...

maintain the syllable restriction. Nouns are inflected for number and case, and have noun classes assigned to them. Nouns can either be singular or plural...

concord but, if the noun refers to a human, they accord with noun classes 1–2 regardless of their noun class. Verbs agree with the noun class of their subjects...

In linguistics, a mass noun, uncountable noun, non-count noun, uncount noun, or just uncountable, is a noun with the syntactic property that any quantity...

Jupiter; Sarah; Walmart) as distinguished from a common noun, which is a noun that refers to a class of entities (continent, planet, person, corporation)...

"person", and the plural prefix for human nouns starting with mu- (class 1) in most languages is ba- (class 2), thus giving bantu for "people". Bleek...

In linguistics, a collective noun is a word referring to a collection of things taken as a whole. Most collective nouns in everyday speech are not specific...

mostly the meaning of the word which defines the noun class to which it belongs. There are three noun classes: masculine (human males, he-gender), feminine...

this language family. These include agglutinativity, a rich array of noun classes, extensive inflection for person (both subject and object), tense, aspect...

sample sentences in Shinzwani. He does not appear to have recognized noun- classes (of which there are at least six in Shinzwani) nor does he appear to...

range of morphological noun prefixes with mandatory grammatical agreement system with subject–verb, or noun–modifier for each of class. It is largely used...