From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
> En réponse à Pavel Adamek <pavel.adamek@...>:
> > > Other possible archaisms -
> > > he uses "substantive" than "noun" whenever possible.
> >
> > When the new term for "substantive" is "noun",
> > what is the new term for "noun"?
>
> Actually, "substantive" is a newer term compared to "noun", and those are not
> synonymous :)) . "Noun" is actually a subset of "substantive", as
"substantive"
> refers to anything that can be the head of a "noun phrase" (yes, the
> terminology is unclear :)) ). So "substantive" includes the pronouns, as well
> as adjectives used nominally in languages where this is possible (like in
> French for instance. In English it's normally not possible, you have to
> add "one").
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.
*Muke!
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