Abstract

This chapter discusses nouns and other word classes that function syntactically as nominals. It gives the defining morphological and syntactic characteristics of nouns, and discusses nominal subclasses determined by possession. In Panare some semantically non-prototypical nouns do exhibit some morphology that differentiates them from more prototypical nouns. These criteria will be important in arguing for and against certain syntactic analyses, and therefore described in some detail. The chapter discusses four morphological properties and four syntactic properties specific to the grammar of Panare which identify lexical items in context as nominal versus nonnominal. It also describes genitive classifiers, which also function as nominals. The chapter outlines the systems of pronouns and demonstratives. The Panare pronoun/demonstrative system distinguishes person and number, and for third persons animacy, spatial deixis and visibility/invisibility. Keywords:morphological characteristics; nominals; nouns; Panare; syntactic characteristics

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