The noun and its grammatical categories in the english and uzbek languages

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2.1. THE NOUN AND ITS GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES IN THE ENGLISH AND 
UZBEK LANGUAGES 
 
Plan: 
1.The Noun. Characteristics of the noun according to the suggested criteria 
2.Classification of nouns according to the structure and semantic peculiarities in the 
English and native languages 
3.Typological categories of nouns in the English and native languages
Basic concepts of the subject
: 
Lexical- grammatical category, grammatical category, primary grammatical 
category, secondary grammatical category, category of numeral, category of case, 
purely lexical or semantic category, masculine gender, feminine gender, neuter gender, 
animate objects, inanimate objects, stem- building elements, linguistic peculiarities 
 
A noun (from Latin nomen,literally name) is a word that functions as the name 
of a specific object or set of objects, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, 
states of existence, or ideas. The noun is a primary grammatical category.We don’t 
characterize the noun according to its meaning. Thus actions and states of existence can 
also be expressed by verbs , qualities by adjectives, places by adverbs. Linguistically, a 
noun is a member of a large, open part of speech whose members can occur as the main 
word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of preposition. In 
English nouns are those words which can be used with articles and attributive adjectives. 
In English, some modern authors use the word ‘substantive’ to refer to a class that 
includes both nouns (single words) and noun phrases ( multiword units, also called noun 
equivalents). It can also be used as a counterpart to ‘attributive’ when distinguishing 
between a noun being used as