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Where does nominal collide?

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nominal2 CONSTRUCTSNominal scaleSTEVENS · 1946Nominal (grammar)HUDDLESTON & PULLUM · 2002

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Statistics

A measurement scale of unordered categories

In statistics, the nominal scale is the lowest level of measurement: numbers or labels serve only to name and distinguish categories, with no order, spacing, or magnitude implied, so that the only meaningful operation is checking whether two cases fall in the same class. Stevens's 1946 On the theory of scales of measurement introduced the nominal/ordinal/interval/ratio hierarchy and fixed which statistics each scale permits. The referent is a type of measurement that carries identity but not quantity, and it is a different construct from a bond's nominal value or a grammarian's nominal, which merely happen to share the word.[1]

Unit
Category membership, with equality the only admissible relation
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Summarised with frequencies, modes, and contingency tables rather than means or orderings

Linguistics

A word or phrase functioning as a noun

In grammar, a nominal is a syntactic unit built around a noun that functions as a noun phrase or as the noun-headed core within one, the category that can head a subject or object and take determiners and modifiers. Huddleston and Pullum's 2002 The Cambridge grammar of the English language treats the nominal as a constituent level between the noun and the full noun phrase. The referent is a grammatical category defined by distribution and function, and it has no connection to an unordered measurement scale or a face value printed on a security beyond the shared adjective.[2]

Unit
A constituent's status as a noun-headed syntactic unit
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Identified by distributional and constituency tests: what can head it, modify it, and substitute for it

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interval4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructsmeasurement3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructsscale3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

  1. Stevens, S. S. (1946). On the theory of scales of measurement. Science, 103(2684), 677–680. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.103.2684.677
  2. Huddleston, R., & Pullum, G. K. (2002). The Cambridge grammar of the English language. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521431460

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