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Revision as of 12:59, 19 April 2017

  • Semantic test:
    • Nouns name persons, things or places
  • morphological test:
    • Nouns can combine with a plural morpheme (-(e)s)
  • syntactic test
    • Nouns can occur with the possessive 's, i.e. in the environment:
  • __ 's
    • Nouns can occur between a determiner and a verb, i.e. in the environment: Det __ V


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