The Noun

The noun is a word expressing substance

in the widest sense of the word
Morphological Syntactical characteristics:
characteristics:  Subject & object
 2 numbers  Attribute, prepositional
 2 case forms indirect object, adverbial
modifier
Morphological composition
 Simple (chair, table)
 Derivative (+suffix or prefix – kindness, childhood)
 Compound (stem+stem – snowball, forget-me-not)
Classification of nouns

Proper nouns Common nouns

 Personal names
 Geographical names
 Names of months and days
of the week
 etc
Common nouns
 Class nouns  Nouns of material
Man, dog apple Milk, wood

 Collective nouns  Abstract nouns

Police, family Sadness, life
The category of number

Singular Plural
The category of case

 The common case  The genitive case

-the dependent genitive
(Victoria’s face)
- the absolute genitive
(Brother’s)