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Long-standing issues in adjective order and corpus evidence for a multifactorial approach
Linguistics, 2019 In this paper, we introduce the issue of adjective order and show that different approaches vary in their answers to the question of how fine-grained the semantic categories determining adjective order are.
Andreas Trotzke, Eva Wittenberg
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International Journal of Bilingualism, 2019 Objectives: Spanish and English contrast in adjective–noun word order: for example, brown dress (English) vs. vestido marrón (‘dress brown’, Spanish). According to the Matrix Language model ( MLF) word order in code-switched sentences must be compatible ...
M Carmen Parafita Couto +2 more
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Adjective Ordering Across Languages
Annual Review of Linguistics, 2022 Adjective ordering preferences stand as perhaps one of the best candidates for a true linguistic universal: When multiple adjectives are strung together in service of modifying some noun, speakers of different languages—from English to Mandarin to Hebrew—
Gregory Scontras
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Interaction and Grammar: Predicative Adjective Constructions in English Conversation
Languages, 2021 This article studies the function of Copular Predicate Constructions in everyday English conversation. We compare predicate adjective constructions (PA) and constructions with a predicate nominal containing an adjective (PAN).
Joan Bybee, S. Thompson
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Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2023 Multidimensional adjectives are ubiquitous in natural language. An adjective F is multidimensional just in case whether F applies to an object or pair of objects depends on how those objects stand with respect to multiple underlying dimensions of F-ness.
Justin D’Ambrosio, Brian Hedden
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ADJECTIVES AND SUBSTANTIVIZATION OF ADJECTIVES
, 2023 The article deals with the problems of the process of substantivation of adjectives in Modern English. The study of functions of adjectives and the process of substantivation provided in the literature on this theme is analyzed in the article.
Xusanova Mohira Sherali qizi +2 more
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The lexical semantics of adjective–noun phrases in the human brain
Human Brain Mapping, 2019 As a person reads, the brain performs complex operations to create higher order semantic representations from individual words. While these steps are effortless for competent readers, we are only beginning to understand how the brain performs these ...
A. Fyshe +4 more
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Development and Validation of the Narcissistic Vulnerability Scale: An Adjective Rating Scale
Psychological Assessment, 2018 There is an ongoing debate regarding the nature of narcissism such that some argue that narcissistic individuals oscillate between grandiose and vulnerable states, whereas others argue these dimensions are stable traits (e.g., grandiose individuals ...
Michael L. Crowe +5 more
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Belief, Rational and Justified [PDF]
, 2021 It is clear that beliefs can be assessed both as to their justification and their rationality. What is not as clear, however, is how the rationality and justification of belief relate to one another.
Siscoe, Wes
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Disambiguating Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives Using Automatically Acquired Selectional Preferences [PDF]
, 2003 Selectional preferences have been used by word sense disambiguation (WSD) systems as one source of disambiguating information. We evaluate WSD using selectional preferences acquired for English adjective—noun, subject, and direct object grammatical ...
Briscoe Ted +3 more
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