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Agreement and concord in nominal expressions
2008This paper claims that feature sharing should be analyzed as the result of at least two different processes, which are named here Agreement and Concord, and inquires how these two processes are manifested inside nominal expressions (NEs). Agreement is the transfer of the Person features of the possessor (the “subject” of the NE) onto some functional ...
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On the Structure of Nominal Expressions
2009This chapter details the main properties of nominal expressions in Spanish and presents a syntactic structure to account for them. The chapter starts with a description of the types of arguments and modifiers allowed in these constructions (namely, adjectives, prepositional phrases (PPs), and genitive pronouns). The analysis of these data enables me to
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Person-referring expressions, reference nominals, and address nominals
2019Abstract This chapter discusses reference nominals – closely related to address nominals – within a single-genre written corpus. It traces how the choice of reference nominals changed over five decades in the mid-20th century. Specifically, the chapter shows how the secretaries of a neighborhood social club referred to their neighbors as (for example ...
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Nominalized expressive acts in English
Verbum, 2015The aim of this paper is to present a detailed analysis of the nominalized communicative objects in the ‘Reaction Object Construction’ (‘He snorted his disapproval’), based on the examination of over 2000 constructions extracted from the Corpus of Contemporary American English.
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An LFG Account of Discontinuous Nominal Expressions
Proceedings of the Workshop on Discontinuous Structures in Natural Language Processing, 2016This paper presents an overview of an LFG treatment of discontinuous nominal expressions involving modification, making the claim that cross-linguistically different types of discontinuity (i.e. in Warlpiri and English) should be captured by the same overall analysis, despite being licensed in different ways.
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Possessive clitics and the structure of nominal expressions
Lingua, 2002Abstract This paper examines the syntactic structure of nominal expressions (NE) containing possessive phrases with special attention on Bulgarian NE with possessive clitics. We argue that the possessive clitic appears in two syntactic positions: one inside the NE, and one in the VP domain, even though it can be pronounced either pre- or postverbally
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Multiple nominal expressions in Garrwa conversation
2020Abstract Noun phrases have long been a contested category in studies of Australian language grammars. In this chapter I use a corpus of conversations in the Northern Australian language Garrwa to show how the syntactic and prosodic design of referring expressions consisting of a demonstrative nominal and a common nominal is highly sensitive to the ...
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Nominalization and the Expression of Manner in K’iche’
International Journal of American Linguistics, 2021Telma Angelina Can Pixabaj +1 more
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Explicit expressions for the mean nominal strength
Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2008The strength of quasibrittle structures and those of that kind is represented by what is known as the mean nominal strength. In this note, explicit and general expressions are derived for the mean nominal strength considering three popular models. The practical advantages of using the expressions are established.
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2013
The article deals with the nominative and expressive functions of stable terminological word combinations. The author compares stable terminological word combinations with phraseological units, using the principle of nominative significance to classify them. Examples of terminological collocations with prevailing nominative and expressive functions are
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The article deals with the nominative and expressive functions of stable terminological word combinations. The author compares stable terminological word combinations with phraseological units, using the principle of nominative significance to classify them. Examples of terminological collocations with prevailing nominative and expressive functions are
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