mutation – see umlaut.
negative concord – negation falls not only on a verb phrase but also on anyother appropriate
element in the clause, as in non-standard present-day English I didn’t see nothing.
nominal – belonging to the word class ‘noun’, or having the characteristics of anoun.
nominative case – grammatical case exhibited by a noun phrase functioning
as the subject of the verb, and usually (but by no means always) expressing semantically the
agent of the action that the verb denotes.
nucleus – see syllable.
number – grammatical category associated especially with nouns. In English, ‘plural’ and
‘singular’ numbers are distinguished inflectionally (e.g. ‘cats’ versus ‘cat’). In Old English there
was also a dual category, occasionally usedwith pronouns and adjectives.
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