He devotes individual chapters to discussing acquisition of the meanings of concrete nouns, pronouns and proper nouns, verbs, visual representations, abstract nouns, and number words.
Learners tended to accept count nouns in mass contexts (using the mass quantifier much) more often than when they were abstract nouns.
According to this dictionary, bump into does not normally collocate with abstract nouns such as a new expression or a word like although.
Concomitantly, they contain a range of abstract nouns embedded in complex syntactic constructions.
In contrast, abstract nouns, collective nouns, and mass nouns usually take -u, as do most borrowings and most foreign place names.
The feminine abstract noun "ai/arti" derives from "ar-", to allot, to grant.
Apodicticity or apodixis is the corresponding abstract noun, referring to logical certainty.
The latter word is the abstract noun derived from "var", which is an adjective meaning existing or present.
