In some languages, they are categorized by classifiers, which are not to be confused with their categorization into classes, which include animacy distinctions in Algonquian languages and gender systems in many Indo-European languages.
Mark Baker has argued that these entities undergo incorporation via left head adjunction, and thus when they are incorporated they should always precede the verb root. A condition on these entities has been argued to be reducible to the visibility condition Â– that condition, the case filter, states that any overtly realized one must bear abstract Case. A dissertation by Abney argued for the replacement of their namesake phrases with (*) determiner phrases. In some languages, they are categorized by classifiers, which are not to be confused with their categorization into classes, which include animacy distinctions in Algonquian languages and gender systems in many Indo-European languages. The "mass" type of them is contrasted with the "count" type, which can be pluralized. For 10 points, name these words which often refer to people, places, or things.
Mark Baker has argued that these entities undergo incorporation via left head adjunction, and thus when they are incorporated they should always precede the verb root.
nouns [accept noun phrases or NPs; prompt on determiner phrases or DPs before mention]