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Re: substantive and noun

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 13:12
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. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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