• A noun particle is any morpheme that denotes or marks the presence of a noun. They are a common feature of languages such as Japanese and Korean. Korean...
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    preposition/particle to after the noun. An English preposition can never follow its noun, so if we can change verb - P - noun to verb - noun - P, then P...
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    the particle の can remove accent from odaka nouns, and nakadaka nouns ending in a 特殊拍, resulting in a accentless phrase. Once the resulting noun+の phrase...
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  • Look up verbal noun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Historically, grammarians have described a verbal noun or gerundial noun as a verb form that functions...
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  • an adjective by taking the particle 〜な -na. (In comparison, regular nouns can function adjectivally by taking the particle 〜の -no, which is analyzed as...
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    the noun particulate is most frequently used to refer to pollutants in the Earth's atmosphere, which are a suspension of unconnected particles, rather...
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  • Japanese particles, joshi (助詞) or teni(o)ha (てに(を)は), are suffixes or short words in Japanese grammar that immediately follow the modified noun, verb, adjective...
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  • In grammar, the term particle (abbreviated PTCL) has a traditional meaning, as a part of speech that cannot be inflected, and a modern meaning, as a function...
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    head-final, agglutinative, suffixing language like Korean. Nouns are followed by particles that may function as case markers. Verbs inflect for tense...
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  • Possessive (redirect from Possessive Noun)
    as Japanese and Chinese form possessive constructions with nouns using possessive particles, in the same way as described for pronouns above. An example...
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  • exclusively left-branching. Sentence-final particles are used to add emotional or emphatic impact, or make questions. Nouns have no grammatical number or gender...
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  • Animacy (redirect from Animate noun)
    possession of an inanimate noun. An animate noun, here 'cat', is marked as the subject of the verb with the subject particle ga (が), but no topic or location...
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  • A proper noun is a noun that identifies a single entity and is used to refer to that entity (Africa; Jupiter; Sarah; Walmart) as distinguished from a common...
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  • 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...
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  • Korean postpositions, or particles, are suffixes or short words in Korean grammar that immediately follow a noun or pronoun. This article uses the Revised...
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  • of physics attended. - Argument in a noun phrase A prepositional phrase should not be confused with the particle that comprises a phrasal verb. Phrasal...
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  • 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...
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  • conventional to non-standard. It can be used as a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, particle, conjunction, hedge, filler, quotative, and semi-suffix...
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  • of words: नाम nāma – noun (including adjective) आख्यात ākhyāta – verb उपसर्ग upasarga – pre-verb or prefix निपात nipāta – particle, invariant word (perhaps...
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    is the definite article in the Arabic language: a particle (ḥarf) whose function is to render the noun on which it is prefixed definite. For example, the...
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  • (abbreviated clf or cl) is a word or affix that accompanies nouns and can be considered to "classify" a noun depending on some characteristics (e.g. humanness,...
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    encountered for the same compound noun, such as the triplets place name/place-name/placename and particle board/particle-board/particleboard. In addition...
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  • a noun or other word (for example, the adjective clean becomes the verb to clean). Verbification, or verbing, is the creation of a verb from a noun, adjective...
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    modifier「竹取」("bamboo cutter", a compound noun) and the modified noun 「翁」(old man), like the preposition "of". Additionally, the particle 「と」 connects the called name...
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  • Nominalization (redirect from Zombie Noun)
    also known as nouning, is the use of a word that is not a noun (e.g., a verb, an adjective or an adverb) as a noun, or as the head of a noun phrase. This...
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  • 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...
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  • dictionary form of a verb when used non-finitely, with or without the particle to. Thus to go is an infinitive, as is go in a sentence like "I must go...
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    the locative expression. Grammatically, a noun or noun phrase followed by a locative particle is still a noun phrase. For instance, zhuōzi shàng can be...
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  • they are used as nouns or adjectives. (This is an example of a suprafix.) This process can be found in the case of several dozen verb-noun and verb-adjective...
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    person[CLF] these NOUN ADJ POSS POSS NUM CLF DEM these two small friends of mine: 73  The Khmer particle /dɑː/ marked attributes in Old Khmer noun phrases and...
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