For example, an ending-guessing rule says: a word is a pluralcommonnounif it ends with 's'.
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For example, acommonnounfunctioning as the head of a noun phrase normally indicates an object or entity and has a criterion of identity.
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In all three cases above, thecommonnounor adjective of the pair is reduplicated, resulting in a word with two consonants.
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He continued to rage against what he had once called the fallacy of thecommonnoun.
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According to the new theory of reference, the semantic content of a typicalcommonnounis determined by its extension.
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That the content of a typicalcommonnounis determined by its extension undermines criterialism.
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By contrast, according to the old criterialist story about content, the content of acommonnounis given by an extension-fixing criterion.
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Thecommonnounpad, for instance, is ambiguous : it means 'path ' when it is neuter, and ' toad ' when it is masculine.
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In this particular example, the relevant frame is the item-based construction based on the word the that opens up a following slot for acommonnoun.
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Thecommonnounhorse, for instance, is a count noun, since it can be combined with the numeral one in the singular and with two in the plural.
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While there is a lot about word learning that could conceivably be language-specific, determining the extension of acommonnounis an unlikely candidate for a dedicated process.
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For those who know it as a geographer's term, unembedded in a local context, the possibilities are less constrained, and it can behave more like a classicalcommonnoun.
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It is acommonnoun.
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The surname may derive from the obsolescentcommonnounshriver, a person who shrives.
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It may be related to thecommonnoun"coel", meaning belief or omen.
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