The Noun
by Ангелина Горохова
1. Feminine Gender: a noun that denotes the female genre is said to be of feminine gender (duchess, actress, goddess).
1.1. Formation: 1) by adding suffixes –ess, -ine, -trix, -a 2) by paling a word before or after the noun
2. Masculine Gender: a noun that denotes the male genre is said to be of masculine gender (duke, actor, god).
3. Neuter Gender: a noun that is used for things which are neither male nor female are said to be of neuter gender (book, table, pen, house).
4. Function: - phrase level: Adj. + N good boy, N+V a boy swims, V+N to write a letter - sentence level: subject, object
5. General information
5.1. Meaning: thingness or substance
5.2. Form: - grammatical morphemes (relative) s, 's (categories of number and case) - lexical morphemes (derivative): -ment, -ship, -er etc.
6. Genders
6.1. Common Gender: a noun that can be used for both the male as well as the female genre is said to be of common gender (pupil, patient, lecturer, user, applicant).
7. The Pluralia Tantum (spectacles, measles)
8. Categories
8.1. of case
8.1.1. a many-case system
8.1.1.1. Nominative
8.1.1.2. Genitive
8.1.1.3. Accusative
8.1.1.4. Dative
8.1.1.5. the common case
8.1.1.6. Vocative
8.1.1.7. Instrumental
8.1.2. a two-case system
8.1.2.1. the genitive case: meanings
8.1.2.1.1. posession
8.1.2.1.2. the relations between people
8.1.2.1.3. part of the whole
8.1.2.1.4. subjective
8.1.2.1.5. objective
8.1.2.1.6. qualitative
8.2. of number
8.2.1. singular (one)
8.2.2. plural (more than one)
8.2.3. SPECIAL CASES
8.2.3.1. The Singularia Tantum (snow, sugar)