Kinds of objects and their functions in short stories by Mark Twain

Language is a social phenomenon and every language has its own grammar. For many centuries such famous scholars as B. Illyish, M. Y. Blokh, O. Jesperson and many others had investigated the problem of parts of speech, that causes great controversies both in general linguistic theory and in the analysis of separate languages. And the main question that had interested them was noun as a part of speech.

The word "noun" comes from the Latin nomen meaning "name." Word classes like nouns were first described by Sanskrit grammarian Panini and ancient Greeks like Dionysios Thrax, and defined in terms of their morphological properties. For example, in Ancient Greek, nouns can be inflected for grammatical case, such as dative or accusative. Verbs, on the other hand, can be inflected for tenses, such as past, present or future, while nouns cannot. [14, 31]

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Content

Introduction..........3

Chapter I Morphological features of nouns......7
1.1 Classification of nouns in English.........7
1.2 Morphological characteristics of Nouns...........10
1.3 Morphological composition of Nouns.........13

Chapter II Comparison of Nouns in English language........16
2.1 The category of number of Nouns in English language.....16
2.2 The category of case of Nouns in English language........25
2.3 The functions of Nouns in English and languages..........37

Conclusion........42
Bibliography......45
Appendix..........48