The noun

The noun as a part of speech has the categorical meaning of "substance" or "thinness" lt follows from this that the noun is the main nominative part of speech, effecting nomination of the fullest value within the framework of the notional division of the lexicon. 

The noun has the power, by way of nomination, to isolate different properties of substances and present them as corresponding self-dependent substances. 

Her words were unexpectedly bitter. - We were struck by the unexpected bitterness of her words. 

This natural, and practically unlimited, sustantivization force establishes the noun as the central nominative lexemic unit ... Читать дальше »