LING 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Count Noun, Mass Noun, Pronoun
24 Sep 2018
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They left the old hafts in the kitchen. Noun: distributional evidence: determiner and adjective, occurs after the verb, pluralized with an s. Not all words that belong to a single category will have the same morphological and distributional characteristics. Common: count: house, non-count, singular/mass: furniture, plural: trousers. Nominative and accusative form (he- nominative, him accusative) Pronouns do inflect for case, other nouns do not. Pronouns do not occur after determiners or adjectives. *in current generative theory, pronouns are assumed to be a subclass of determiners (however, for this course and the textbook- we will treat them as a subclass of nouns) Compare them with the 3rd class which are proper nouns. Common nouns refer to entire classes of entity, while proper noun refers to a specific entity (unique reference) Some people identify proper nouns as nouns that are capitalized: not a reliable way. Capitalization has no relevance to a spoken language.
