Noun (definition)

In traditional grammar, a noun is seen as a person, place, or thing. A more rigorous description is that a noun is any word that can function as a subject, a direct object or an object of a preposition. Nouns are typically inflected for number, gender, case, and countability. Nouns can follow articles like the in English and an in Gaelic.

See Also

• Plural Formation
• Declension (definition)
• Case (definition)
• Pronoun (definition)

External Links

• http://www.icalweb.com/wiki/index.php?title=Nouns
• http://www.towson.edu/ows/nouns.htm
• http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsANoun.htm
• An Coitcheann Page on nouns: http://wikademy.wikispaces.com/Nouns

References

• Crystal, David (1999) The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin.
• Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Carnie, A. (2013) Syntax: A Generative Introduction. 3rd Edition. Wiley Blackwell.