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BARE NOUN PHRASES IN ELLIPTICAL STRUCTURES OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE
The basic theme of this paper are bare noun phrases, which in the Italian language often appear in reduced syntactic structures. Omitting redundant syntactic units is caused by several reasons, among which the most important are economy of language ...
Aleksandra Blatešić
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The Syntactic Domain of Content [PDF]
Borer, H. in press. 'The Syntactic Domain of Content.' In Becker, Misha, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman (eds.), Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams. 2013. vi, 355 pp. + index (pp. 205–248). http://benjamins.com/#
Hagit Borer, BORER, H
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Learning English bare singulars: Data in the L2 classroom
Contrasted with the more typical English bare noun forms of mass and proper nouns, bare singular count nouns comprise a problematic set for many descriptive grammars and thus for many second language learners.
Laurel Smith Stvan, Suganthi John
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Bare Plurals in Spanish are Interpreted as Properties
In this paper, I argue that bare plural noun phrases in Spanish unambiguously denote properties of individuals. I begin by using evidence from their incompatibility with kind-level predicates to show that Spanish bare plurals do not denote kinds.
Louise McNally
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AXEL: A framework to deal with ambiguity in three-noun compounds [PDF]
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University, 6/12/2010.Cognitive Linguistics has been widely used to deal with the ambiguity generated by words in combination.
Matadamas Martinez, Jorge
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The gender congruency effect in bare noun production in Spanish
Previous research in syntactic gender congruency effects has indicated that German and Dutch speakers exhibited priming effects in the production of noun phrases (La Heij, Mak, Sander & Willeboordse 1998; Schriefers 1993; Schriefers & Teruel 2000 ...
O'Rourke, Polly
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Empirical measurements of lexical similarity in noun phrase conjuncts [PDF]
The ability to detect similarity in conjunct heads is potentially a useful tool in helping to disambiguate coordination structures - a difficult task for parsers. We propose a distributional measure of similarity designed for such a task.
Deirdre Hogan, Hogan, Deirdre
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This article investigates indefinite DPs in some Romance varieties spoken in border contexts between linguistic groups. Specifically, we will consider Occitan and Franco-Provençal varieties of western Piedmont, the western Ligurian dialects, the Lombard-
Leonardo Maria Savoia, Benedetta Baldi
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Satellite-framed lexicalization of creation events in French?
As a typical verb-framed language, French has only limited ability to combine manner verbs with result-denoting constituents in the VP. Based on an event structural approach, this contribution explores the compatibility of different types of manner ...
Barbara Schirakowski
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Les constructions de type Nc-Npr avec et sans déterminant :comparaison français-allemand
This French and German contrastive study is about constructions made of a noun phrase (sometimes limited to a single noun) and a name, such as Le capitaine Haddock / Kapitän Haddock ; l’oncle Charles /Onkel Karl ; Le poète Gottfried Benn /der Dichter ...
Stéphanie Benoist
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