Abstract nouns as metadiscursive shells in academic discourse

Abstract Nouns and Countability

Nouns and Countability

Personification of Abstract Nouns

Personification of Abstract Nouns Please answer any and all questions in complete sentences for full credit. These responses should sound like a story or a personal add when they are done correctly. Make your answers thoughtful and creative. You will be sharing your response with the class. Definition of Personification: Description of a Noun: Definition of Abstract: Abstract noun of choice:___...

Parts of Speech: Abstract Nouns

Nouns as Adjectives and Adjectives as Nouns

Many languages have morphological devices to turn a noun into an adjective. Often this morphology is genuinely derivational in that it adds a semantic predicate such as ‘havingN’ (proprietive), ‘lacking-N’ (caritive’), ‘similar-to-N’ (similitudinal) and so on. In other cases the denominal adjective expresses some vaguely defined notion of possession as in Russian Ivan-ovo (detstvo) ‘Ivan’s (chi...

Theology as Academic Discourse in Greco-roman Late Antiquity

Following conventional wisdom Theology as an academic discipline (taught at Universities) is something which developed only in the Middle Ages, or in a certain sense even as late as the 19 century. The present essay in contrast traces its origins to Classical Antiquity and outlines its development in early Christianity, especially with a view to institutions of higher education that existed in ...