EXPRESSING OUR EXPERIENCE OF PEOPLE AND THINGS SUMMARY
1 Nouns refer to classes of entities: persons, objects, places, institutions, actions, abstract ideas, qualities, phenomena, emotions, etc.
2 How we experience entities: experiential features: countability, definiteness, quantity, description, classification, identification.
3 Structural elements that realize experiential features: the head, the determiner, the pre-modifier, the post-modifier. Noun heads
1 Common nouns. Countability. The notion of ‘count’ and ‘non-count’ (or ‘mass’).
2 Proper nouns.
3 Pronouns. Personal pronouns: subjective form: I, you, we, he/she it, they, one; objective form: me, us, him, her, them. You and it are invariant. Demonstrative pronouns: this, that, these, those. Interrogative pronouns: who, which, what. Substitute words: one/ones.
