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The category of "noun" (more properly "nominal") in Hadza encompasses what are thought of in English as nouns, attributive adjectives, pronouns and numerals. Nouns are not marked for case and it is usually only animate nouns that are inflected for plurality. | The category of "noun" (more properly "nominal") in Hadza encompasses what are thought of in English as nouns, attributive adjectives, pronouns and numerals. Nouns are not marked for case and it is usually only animate nouns that are inflected for plurality. | ||
Nouns are inflected for possession by prefixing. Indeed, in some cases this is mandatory (see [[/Nouns# | Nouns are inflected for possession by prefixing. Indeed, in some cases this is mandatory (see [[/Nouns#Possession|possession]]). | ||
Some nouns are in fact verb phrases that have been nominalised by way of an enclitic. | Some nouns are in fact verb phrases that have been nominalised by way of an enclitic. | ||