5 Questions
Which of the following is a definition of a noun?
A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects
In terms of syntactic rules, how do nouns differ between languages?
The syntactic rules for nouns are different in each language
When were word classes (parts of speech) described by Sanskrit grammarians?
In the 5th century BC
What was the Ancient Greek equivalent of a noun?
Onoma
How many main categories of words are defined in Yāska's Nirukta?
Four
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