Nouns & Noun Phrases

Question 1

Morphological characteristics of Nouns

Answer 1

• Inflect for N°, gender
• Common suffixes: -dom, -tion, -sion

Question 2

Syntactic characteristics of Nouns

Answer 2

• Preceded by determiners, Adj, N, pre-modifiers
• Followed by clauses, PP’s, post-modifiers

Question 3

Semantic characteristics of Nouns

Answer 3

• Proper nouns: specific names for people/places/things, always in capital.
• Common nouns: abstract or concrete ; countable/uncountable
- Uncountable nouns: always + singular verb
- Pluralia Tantum: always plural, usually in pairs or made of parts.