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Noun class

In linguistics, a noun class is a particular category of nouns. A noun may belong to a given class because of the characteristic features of its referent, such as gender, animacy, shape, but such designations are often clearly conventional. Some authors use the term "grammatical gender" as a synonym of "noun class", but others consider these different…

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Noun class

Nodes94
Edges93
Triples116
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.021277
Components1

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related to General · 71
Noun class → African, Afrikanische Sprachwissenschaften, Amsterdam, Anne Storch, Antje, Asher, Benjamins, Cambridge University Press, CBO9781139166119, Charles, Colette, Company, Corbett, Course, Craig, Dialog, En, Eugene, Frankfurt, Función
related to Caucasian languages · 13
Noun class → Abaza, Abkhaz, Aghul, Among Northwest Caucasian, Bats, In, Lezgian, Northeast Caucasian, Northwest Caucasian, Some, The, The Andi, Udi
related to Noun classes versus grammatical gender · 9
Noun class → Danish, English, For, Genders, Not, Some, Sometimes, The, This
related to External links · 5
Noun class → Genders, Language Structures Global, Number, WALS, World Atlas
related to Noun classes versus noun classifiers · 5
Noun class → Because, Chinese, Japanese, Some, Tai
related to Atlantic–Congo languages · 4
Noun class → Atlantic, Certain, Congo, The Fula
related to Common criteria for noun classes · 4
Noun class → Common, Ojibwe, Polish, Tamil
is a · 2
Noun class → particular category of nouns, plural class for more than one singular class
related to Australian Aboriginal languages · 1
Noun class → The Dyirbal
related to Notion · 1
Noun class → There

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noun classes class nouns gender languages language vs system singular plural swahili bantu form animate genders nominal objects 10 number

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Noun classis aparticular category of nouns0.90text
Noun classis aplural class for more than one singular class0.90text
BatsDyirbalinstance ofthe Meinhof system of counting singular and plural as separate classes gives a total of 21 classes including the four locatives.SwahiliZuluNortheast Caucasian languages0.80text
Noun classrelated to Atlantic–Congo languagesAtlantic0.60section
Noun classrelated to Atlantic–Congo languagesCongo0.60section
Noun classrelated to Atlantic–Congo languagesCertain0.60section
Noun classrelated to Atlantic–Congo languagesThe Fula0.60section
Noun classrelated to Australian Aboriginal languagesThe Dyirbal0.60section
Noun classrelated to Caucasian languagesSome0.60section
Noun classrelated to Caucasian languagesNorthwest Caucasian0.60section
Noun classrelated to Caucasian languagesNortheast Caucasian0.60section
Noun classrelated to Caucasian languagesIn0.60section

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