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External possession meets bare nouns in Malagasy

Lingua, 2009
Abstract This paper examines apparent noun incorporation in Malagasy that is the result of external possession (possessor raising). It is shown that such incorporation is not derived via head movement or via compounding. Instead, it is argued that this is an instance of pseudo noun incorporation (Massam, 2001): the possessum is merged as an NP sister
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A Note on Reference to Kinds in Mandarin: the N-leikind Compound

Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2017
This squib examines a special kind-referring expression in Mandarin Chinese, the N-leikind compound. We show that like Mandarin bare nouns, N-leikind compounds also denote kinds, but they can only be instantiated by sets of (sub) kind entities at type ...
Li XuPing
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BARE NOUN PHRASES IN ELLIPTICAL STRUCTURES OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE

Истраживања, 2014
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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Licensing by modification Licensing by modification

Ilha do Desterro, 2008
: This paper looks at the phenomena of licensing by modification, whereby an unacceptable noun phrase is redeemed by the presence of a modifier or an unavailable reading for a noun phrase is made available with the addition of a modifier.
Veneeta Dayal
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The Semantic Composition of Basque 'Noun + egin' predicates

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2018
Basque 'Noun + egin' ('make') expressions display striking properties for the Grammar of Basque: They have 'defective' morpho-syntax and semantics, involve discourse opacity, lack scope relations, and show a highly constrained combinatory.
Fernado García Murga
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Lexicalization of Light Verb Structures and the Semantics of Nouns

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2004
In this study I shall focus on two Romance idiomatic patterns and the semantics of nouns. It is shown that idioms, in addition to having distinct basic argument structure representations, are formed in syntax by various instantiations of Merge.
M. Teresa Espinal
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BAHASA DI BALIK PEMBUNUHAN KARAKTER: STUDI KASUS RUMOR LARANGAN HIJAB BAGI PEGAWAI BUMN

Litera, 2015
Abstrak Artikel ini menyajikan analisis wacana mengenai larangan hijab yang memberikan stigma negatif pada Menteri BUMN. Sumber data berasal dari cuitan DE dan artikel surat kabar NS yang mengutip DE.
Prihantoro Prihantoro
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“Allez, (mon) chou, on y va!”. Twenty years later: Revisiting the puzzle of French vocatives [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2019
The main assumption put forward in this paper is that that vocative phrases are not substantially different from noun phrases in argument positions when it comes to their internal make-up and the rules underlying their syntactic derivation.
Martine Coene*,Yves D’hulst**, Liliane Tasmowski***
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Identifying (In)Definiteness in Vietnamese Noun Phrase

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2022
This paper aims to settle the issue of whether những, các, một are articles in Vietnamese as argued by Nguyen T. C. (1975), Nguyen H. T. (2004), a.o.
Phan, Trang, Chierchia, Gennaro
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Revisiting the Relationship between the Properties of Atelicity and Partitivity

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2010
The paper aims at revisiting the relationship between the properties of (a)telicity and partitivity in Romanian. It is a better motivated extension of Crăiniceanu (2009).
Ilinca Crăiniceanu
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