Re: substantive and noun

En réponse à Muke Tever <mktvr@...>:

>
> Huh!  That is the opposite of what I learned.  I learned that
> "substantive" is
> the subset of "noun":
>
>     noun (L nomen, = name) substantive:
>         what we normally call nouns
>     noun adjective:
>         what we normally call adjectives
>     noun
>         substantives & adjectives together.
>
Once again a result of the strange terminology used by English-speaking
countries. Internationally (it's the definition I learnt), the noun is a subset
of the substantive, not the other way round, and while noun and adjective can
be opposed, substantive put them together, and adds the pronouns to the mix.

It's very common for instance to use the term substantive to refer to both
nouns and adjectives in languages which don't separate them formally.

Christophe.

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