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searching for English nouns 57 found (70 total)

Old English grammar (8,365 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

absence of a synthetic passive voice, which still existed in Gothic. Old English nouns are grouped by grammatical gender, and inflect based on case and number

Uninflected word (375 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

be inflectable words that appear in their basic form. For example, English nouns are said to be uninflected in the singular, while they show inflection

Uncertain plural (100 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

advance whether a word should be written in the singular or plural. For English nouns, this may be demonstrated by enclosing the trailing s in parentheses

Irrumatio (1,026 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

forces his penis into someone else's mouth, usually a woman's. The English nouns irrumatio and irrumation, and the verb irrumate, come from the Latin

Middle English (5,634 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

noun-ending patterns from the more complex system of inflection in Old English: Nouns of the weak declension are primarily inherited from Old English n-stem

Southern Sierra Miwok (3,799 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to English nouns but can be translated as past or future tense English verbs or verbal phrases. However, most forms which translate to English nouns, adverbs

Tanglish (887 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

words "girl-u heart-u black-u" in the lyrics of "Why This Kolaveri Di". English nouns often are combined with Tamil case markers, as in "journeyai" (accusative

Determiner (1,333 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

was coined by Leonard Bloomfield in 1933. Bloomfield observed that in English, nouns often require a qualifying word such as an article or adjective. He

Binnen-I (2,261 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

an expression that would otherwise require three words. Since most English nouns (excluding pronouns) have no grammatical gender, words such as teacher(s)

Conversion (word formation) (698 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

depending on syntax; for example, moku may mean food or to eat. Many English nouns are formed from unmodified verbs: a fisherman's catch, to go for a walk

Nonce word (1,280 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

not specific to prior experience with the word but applies to most English nouns, whether familiar or novel. Nancy N. Soja, Susan Carey, and Elizabeth

Null morpheme (587 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

showing alternative morphemes. For example, the singular number of English nouns is shown by a null morpheme that contrasts with the plural morpheme

Sorani (4,420 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

("Snow is white"). Indefinite nouns receive an interpretation like English nouns preceded by a, an, some, or any. Several modifiers may only modify nouns

Revised English Bible (958 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

gender-inclusivity, such as the NRSV, that avoid exclusively masculine English nouns and pronouns. For instance, in Psalm 1, the NRSV uses plurals: "Happy

Angus Cameron (academic) (312 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

before completing a post-graduate degree at Oxford in 1968 entitled "Old English nouns of colour: a semantic study". This was the starting point for his later

Old English (8,226 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

before and after the Old English period, see Phonological history of English. Nouns decline for five cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, instrumental;

Arabic nouns and adjectives (6,855 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the following in English: English nouns preceded by the, this, that, or a possessive adjective (e.g. my, your); English nouns taken in a generic sense

Mass noun (2,096 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

explain many central phenomena of the mass-count distinction. Many English nouns can be used in either mass or count syntax, and in these cases, they

Genderless language (791 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

nouns that have been borrowed from other languages. For example, while English nouns no longer exhibit gender (with legacy exceptions that are themselves

Taglish (1,537 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

grammar with Tagalog syntax and morphology, but that occasionally employs English nouns and verbs in place of their Tagalog counterparts. Examples: English

Declension (2,536 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

members of two genders or even all three, and the gender classes of English nouns are usually determined by their agreement with pronouns, rather than

Bare nouns (1,791 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

280–295. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2007.10.015. hdl:1874/25018. "Appendix:English nouns with restricted non-referential interpretation in bare noun phrases

Rochelle Lieber (586 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-957926-6 Lieber, R. 2016. English nouns: The ecology of nominalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Malaysian English (2,320 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Its lexis is strongly influenced by local languages, with many non-English nouns and verbs commonly used, and it is significantly different grammatically

Grammatical gender (12,102 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

features compared with a typical language with full grammatical gender. English nouns are not generally considered to belong to gender classes in the way

Case-based reasoning (2,144 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

rule-induction algorithm might learn rules for forming the plural of English nouns from examples such as dog/dogs, fly/flies, and ray/rays. Kolodner, Janet

Apostrophe (16,580 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

singular "people"). These principles are universally accepted. A few English nouns have plurals that are not spelled with a final "s" but nevertheless

Atlantic Canadian English (3,759 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Newfoundland and Labrador as outlined in the Dictionary of Newfoundland English: Nouns after numerals above one have no plural -s. 'Now a cod-trap is about

Standard Chinese (8,055 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

particles. The basic word order is subject–verb–object (SVO), as in English. Nouns are generally preceded by any modifiers (adjectives, possessives and

Italian language (11,881 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

are capitalized when occurring at the beginning of a sentence. Unlike English, nouns referring to languages (e.g. Italian), speakers of languages, or inhabitants

-lock (721 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Germanic paganism is attested only as a personal name, Oslac. The Old English nouns in -lác include brýdlác "nuptials" (from which the now obsolete bridelock)

Klingon grammar (4,951 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

used to form words for persons and things that do something, much as English nouns of the form X-er can mean either "person who does X" (listener, baker)

History of English (6,035 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"possessive" for nominative, oblique, and genitive pronouns. Modern English nouns exhibit only one inflection of the reference form: the possessive case

Van Wijngaarden grammar (2,914 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

in the approach waned; occasionally, new studies are published. In English, nouns, pronouns and verbs have attributes such as grammatical number, gender

Inflection (6,185 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

feminine. These words share a common inflectional framework. In Old English, nouns are divided into two major categories of declension, the strong and

Transformational grammar (4,854 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

example of an interpretable feature is the plural inflection on regular English nouns, e.g., dogs. The word dogs can be used to refer only to several dogs

Sex–gender distinction (9,656 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"covert" gender (e.g. male and female, not masculine and feminine) of English nouns, as opposed to the "overt" gender of some English pronouns; this yields

French grammar (6,290 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

peau 'the skin' are both pronounced [po] but disagree in gender. As in English, nouns inflect for number. Orthographically, the plural is usually formed from

English as a second or foreign language (13,588 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

article) and a and an (the indefinite article). In addition, at times English nouns can or indeed must be used without an article; this is called the zero

List of English words with disputed usage (11,267 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

contexts. AHD4 says "The Arabic element al- means 'the', and appears in English nouns such as alcohol and alchemy. Thus, since no one would consider a phrase

Lao grammar (4,607 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

plurality, gender, or declension but may be single or plural. Unlike in English, nouns are not marked with articles. Measure words or classifiers (ລັກສະໜະນາມ

Greek love (6,535 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

his classic study Greek Homosexuality, Kenneth Dover states that the English nouns "a homosexual" and "a heterosexual" have no equivalent in the ancient

Abenaki language (6,435 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as well as continued contact with French-Canadians. Notably, plural English nouns were borrowed into Western Abenaki as a singular form that were then

Interlingua grammar (4,364 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

forms as masculine when they appear in the same context. Unlike in English, nouns cannot take adjectival forms, such as 'winter weather', 'research laboratory'

Olav Beito (399 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Olav T. Beito (in Norwegian) Hjelde, Arnstein. 1996. The Gender of English Nouns Used in American Norwegian. In P. Sture Ureland and Iain Clarkson (eds

Chinese grammar (10,860 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

bottles of wine" and sheet in "three sheets of paper". However, most English nouns can be counted directly without specifying units, while counting of

Chinese classifier (8,901 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

below give examples of common types of classifier phrases. While most English nouns do not require classifiers or measure words (in English, both “five

List of Latin words with English derivatives (336 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

singular, but that typically does not exhibit the root form from which English nouns are generally derived. Contracted from axilla Contracted from ad and

SemEval (3,138 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

WSD. The task is an unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation task for English nouns by means of parallel corpora. It follows the lexical-sample variant

Old Norse morphology (4,986 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Under these circumstances the case system aligns with that of most English nouns, e.g.: "A mouse's (G) mouse (N) gave a mouse (A) to a mouse (D)." or

Grammatical number (23,423 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Part(s) of speech Source (Numberless) 1 Pirahã - Singular, plural 2 English Nouns, pronouns, verbs (3rd person) General, singulative 2 Sidama Nouns (some)

Spanish nouns (6,090 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

precision'. Some words are always grammatically plural. Much as the English nouns mathematics and eyeglasses, for instance, are always plural, the Spanish

German sentence structure (4,121 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

you.SG I.DAT the.ACC.SG.N book.ACC.SG 'Fetch me the book!' Like in English, nouns or non-finite verb forms can sometimes be used to give commands: Achtung

List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms (572 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

up(grade) to upgrade or improve (something). Coupled with English or pseudo-English nouns that indicate what that something is; e.g., version-up: upgrade (software)

Munsee grammar (2,975 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

'inside,' awási· 'the other side of,' é·kwi· 'under.' Some correspond to English nouns or noun phrases: naláhi· 'Munceytown,' kóhpi· 'in the forest.' Some

List of alumni of Jesus College, Oxford (10,552 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

returning for a post-graduate degree, his thesis being entitled "Old English nouns of colour: a semantic study"; a lexicographer of Old English and a professor

Criticism of the Book of Abraham (12,148 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hebrew words makes it plural similar to how an 's' at the end of some English nouns makes the word plural. Smith explained his reasoning for the translation