Examples of common noun

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In terms of inflectional variation, common nouns are different from both adjectives and pronouns.
Appendix 2 (442-446) continues this chapter by discussing the origin of lexical classifiers from body-part or other common nouns.
This is a plausible analysis for plural pronouns like they, which have none of the morphology of plural common nouns.
From this point of view, children should preferentially use determiners with common nouns that are inanimate rather than animate.
The basis for this analysis was a distinction between animate and inanimate common nouns (excluding proper names).
It can combine with various kinds of nominals : common nouns, some proper nouns, adjectives, ordinal numbers, cardinal numbers and demonstratives.
Moreover, we calculated how common nouns, predicates and function words contribute to the increase in vocabulary size which constitutes the spurt.
Even singular count common nouns do not always need a determiner to be well-formed.
As a consequence of these tendencies, animate common nouns were significantly more frequent than inanimate common nouns at 1;8 (t(19)=x2.88, p=0.009).
The separated genitive always has the same distribution as the attached genitives, although it is more common with proper nouns than with common nouns.
Common nouns of this type are blackout, break-up, getaway, get-together, hold-up, mix-up, sit-in, and take-off.
Languages vary idiosyncratically in the sets of referents to which common nouns are applied.
Thus, they function semantically like quantifiers even though they retain many of the syntactic properties of countable common nouns.
Our argument against both depends on a general account of the way in which the contents of common nouns are determined.
Learning proper nouns and common nouns without clues from syntax.
That the indexical aspect is more prevalent than the social aspect in determining the extensions of common nouns is often overlooked.
They reported that their children began to learn common nouns at a faster rate than predicates or grammatical function words.
The composition analysis focused on four lexical categories : social terms, common nouns, predicates and grammatical function words.
The percentages of social terms, common nouns, predicates and grammatical function words were calculated for each child in two different ways, as described earlier.
Finally, the longitudinal design permits verification of the stability of individual differences in the propensity to acquire common nouns, verbs or closed-class words.
The children's vocabulary composition was analyzed by calculating, for each sampling stage, the percentage of common nouns, verbs and closed-class words.
For example, there appears to be no distinction made between proper and common nouns.
We focus on four factors that may yield differential emphases on common nouns and main verbs across the three languages.
Another strategy is to make trademarks distinguishable from common nouns by encasing them in quotations or by printing them in boldface or italics.
It's important to note that besides the proper names a number of common nouns develop the orientating function.
For comprehension, parental frequency correlates significantly with the age of acquisition only for common nouns.
What the contents of typical common nouns actually are on the new view is somewhat controversial.
More interestingly, animate and inanimate common nouns (excluding proper names) show the following tendencies.
Thus, common nouns that were used as proper names formed a category of bare nouns that was clearly overused by children, particularly at younger ages.
As a whole, the most common nouns in parents' speech to children tend to be similarly organized.
The common nouns included the categories of food, clothing, household items, body parts, toys and vehicles, and animal names.
In term of the type of word analysis (common nouns, predicates and closed class items), the pattern was similar to the normative one.
Thirty-two common nouns were chosen as target words and sentence-pairs were constructed for each of them.
Initially, the possessive apostrophe was used more widely with proper names than with common nouns.
With respect to the proposed gradient 'nounhood ' of pronouns, proper nouns and common nouns, one might wonder whether this is really an instance of gradience rather than subcategorization.
It follows from the indexical dimension of content-determination that the beliefs necessary to fix the extension of most common nouns can fall far short of specifying extension-fixing criteria.
On the child's acquisition of proper and common nouns.
This is because in order to understand what these words mean, the child needs some inkling of the meanings of the common nouns that surround them.
The new theory of reference, with its insistence on the environmental dimension of content-determination for most common nouns, puts the lie to criterialism of any sort.
To overcome this problem we would need to incorporate queries for nominal compounds whose non-head constituents are existing words belonging to other parts of speech besides common nouns.
Some share the characteristic properties of the pronouns and are, hence, p-nouns, whereas others share the typical properties of the common nouns and are, hence, c-nouns.
In other words, pro-drop languages may emphasize verbs more than non-pro-drop languages simply because fewer noun phrases, and presumably fewer common nouns, are required for communication in these languages.
If this result were to obtain, it would suggest that the same comprehension of common nouns by late-talking and typically-developing children does not necessarily reflect the same knowledge about categories.
Open class tags cover common nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
Cross-categorial semantics for conjoined common nouns.
The logic of common nouns.
They include not only transcriptions of proper nouns but also those of common nouns for new products.
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