I also showed that by assuming a sortal classifier must express an 'enduring' property shared by the entity type, I can predict that event classifiers must refer to 'shapes of event structures' and furthermore, it is this expression of shapes of event structures that allows event classifiers to coerce event entity reading from nouns denoting concrete entities.
Nouns denoting the old fashioned "people, places and things", especially physical things you can stub your toe on, are better than "metaconcept" nouns like event, phenomenon, level and observation.
Nouns denoting humans and animals are ANIMATE, while most nouns denoting inanimates are INANIMATE.
However, some nouns denoting inanimates are ANIMATE, e.g. asin 'a stone' or miskomin 'raspberry'raspberry
It is also used for deriving language names from nouns denoting nationalities, i.e. "like a person of x nationality [speaks]".
For example, many nouns denoting flat objects such as tables, papers, beds, and benches use the classifier zhāng, whereas many long and thin objects use tiáo.
All of the words were concrete nouns denoting manipulable objects.
Kaufman has trumped this by going for an unpronounceable abstract noun denoting a classical rhetorical device.
Many people mistakenly assume the beverage took its name from the noun denoting pluck and tenacity, but the noun actually evolved from the brand name -- an implicit nod to Moxie's robust flavor profile, and presumably to the fortitude required to drink it.
Neither a schema nor a schema-template is a common noun denoting the instances, and neither is a proper name of a set of instances.
They exist as concepts but not as tangible entities.
