THE USE OF THE NUMBER FORMS OF NOUNS IN ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN
The paper presents the use of the number forms of nouns in English and Romanian. In English, there are regular and irregular nouns. The plural of some abstract and material nouns may be used to express intensity, great quantity and extent. The stem of an English noun can be used attributively, or in...
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| description | The paper presents the use of the number forms of nouns in English and Romanian. In English, there are regular and irregular nouns. The plural of some abstract and material nouns may be used to express intensity, great quantity and extent. The stem of an English noun can be used attributively, or in a collective sense. In Romanian, the number opposition of nouns is marked by desinences. There are some nouns which have double forms of the same gender in the singular, and there are nouns which have two or three forms in the plural. Certain Romanian nouns have only one form, either of singular - singularia tantum, or of plural - pluralia tantum. The collective nouns are those denoting a plurality of objects regarded as a single whole. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7918a40dca314c6a9337385a3c255bd82024-02-03T01:56:31ZengNational University of Science and Technology Politehnica BucharestStudii de gramatică contrastivă1584-143X2344-41932019-01-01294652THE USE OF THE NUMBER FORMS OF NOUNS IN ENGLISH AND ROMANIANNicoleta Florina Mincă0University of PiteştiThe paper presents the use of the number forms of nouns in English and Romanian. In English, there are regular and irregular nouns. The plural of some abstract and material nouns may be used to express intensity, great quantity and extent. The stem of an English noun can be used attributively, or in a collective sense. In Romanian, the number opposition of nouns is marked by desinences. There are some nouns which have double forms of the same gender in the singular, and there are nouns which have two or three forms in the plural. Certain Romanian nouns have only one form, either of singular - singularia tantum, or of plural - pluralia tantum. The collective nouns are those denoting a plurality of objects regarded as a single whole.http://studiidegramaticacontrastiva.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/SGC.-29-2018-Minc%C4%83.pdfstemnumber formscollective nounsnumber oppositiondesinencesdefective nouns |
| spellingShingle | Nicoleta Florina Mincă THE USE OF THE NUMBER FORMS OF NOUNS IN ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN Studii de gramatică contrastivă stem number forms collective nouns number opposition desinences defective nouns |
| title | THE USE OF THE NUMBER FORMS OF NOUNS IN ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN |
| title_full | THE USE OF THE NUMBER FORMS OF NOUNS IN ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN |
| title_fullStr | THE USE OF THE NUMBER FORMS OF NOUNS IN ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN |
| title_full_unstemmed | THE USE OF THE NUMBER FORMS OF NOUNS IN ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN |
| title_short | THE USE OF THE NUMBER FORMS OF NOUNS IN ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN |
| title_sort | use of the number forms of nouns in english and romanian |
| topic | stem number forms collective nouns number opposition desinences defective nouns |
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