Nounal and pronomial
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Nounal and pronomial
Of all the adjectival forms of the parts of speech ("verbal," "adverbial," "prepositional," etc.), "nounal" is surely the strangest. It is rarely used and doesn't sound like a real word. Yet the adjectival form of "pronoun" is not "pronounal" but "pronomial," also rarely used, but at least a bit less awkward. Whom can I blame for this appalling state of affairs?
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Blame the English for bastardizing "nom"/"name" to "noun" ...and doing a half-assed job at that.
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Whats wrong with "nominal"
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I'd only ever heard "nominal" before which is entirely consistent with pronominal
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Re: Nounal and pronomial
According to Wikipedia, "nominal" has a different, more general meaning in linguistics.
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One would normally use noun as a adjective, as in a noun phrase. I suppose nominal wouldn't be ambiguous in the contexts* where noun wouldn't fit.
* (contexts that I don't imagine at the moment).
* (contexts that I don't imagine at the moment).
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Re: Nounal and pronomial
So does "adverbial". And "verbal" of course means "relating to language".Eebster the Great wrote:According to Wikipedia, "nominal" has a different, more general meaning in linguistics.
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