More about nouns
Rama Kant Agnihotri · 2022
This chapter discusses some of the ways in which nouns are related to other nouns. It discusses the WFSs that demonstrate different sets of nouns expressing relations such as ‘doer/creator/maker etc. of X’, ‘hailing from X’, ‘believer in X’, ‘good X’, ‘bad X’, ‘opposite of X’ etc. where both the words involved are nouns. The chapter examines some aspects of using nouns in sentences. Suffixation is indeed the most frequently used strategy to express relationships between different sets of words. The chapter lists some strategies that capture differences in meaning and form among related sets of words. We form sentences by combining nouns, verbs, adjectives, postpositions and adverbs in a rule-governed way. In Hindi the number and gender of the nouns play important roles in determining the form of other constituents and the structure of the sentence as a whole.