Nominals

Nominal, as an adjective describing a type of data, describes unordered, qualitative, discrete data.

Nominals (as a noun) is used in linguistics as a looser lexical category to describe the properties that nouns and adjectives share.

Consider e.g. that in apposition, we might use that to point out that either parts of the relation can independently

'Full nominal' is one that is grounded in a way where it probably singles out a referent.