English Nominals with the Incorporated Object as a Result of Two-Level Conceptual Blending
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2014 The article deals with the phenomenon of idiomatic nominals with the incorporated object, which are English complex nouns of a definite concept structure. The author regards them as a result of conceptual blending.
Ekaterina A. Lukyanchenko
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On word order and non-conservative percentage quantification in Slavic and German
Glossa, 2023 This paper discusses conservative and non-conservative construals of percentage quantifiers (%Qs), e.g., 50% of the women vs. 50% women, in Slavic and German.
Berit Gehrke, Marcin Wągiel
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Big words, small phrases: Mismatches between pause units and the polysynthetic word in Dalabon [PDF]
, 2015 This article uses instrumental data from natural speech to examine the phenomenon of pause placement within the verbal word in Dalabon, a polysynthetic Australian language of Arnhem Land.
Evans, Nicholas +2 more
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, 2012 Introduction to genericity in the nominal, verbal and sentential ...
Beyssade, Claire +2 more
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What's in a compound? Review article on Lieber and Štekauer (eds) 2009. 'The Oxford Handbook of Compounding' [PDF]
, 2011 The Oxford Handbook of Compounding surveys a variety of theoretical and descriptive issues, presenting overviews of compounding in a number of frameworks and sketches of compounding in a number of languages. Much of the book deals with Germanic noun–noun
ANDREW SPENCER +15 more
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Does Hungarian have a case system? [PDF]
, 2008 I argue that case markers in Hungarian are best thought of as ‘fused postpositions’. There is no need to set up a separate syntactic or morphological [Case] attribute as such.
Spencer, Andrew
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From juxtaposition to incorporation: an approach to Generic-Specific constructions [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper, we present an analysis of classifier noun incorporation in Gunwinyguan languages from northern Australia, focussing particularly on generic-specific constructions.
Nordlinger, R, Sadler, L
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Tense Beyond the Verb: Encoding Clausal Tense/Aspect/Mood on Nominal Dependents [PDF]
, 2004 It is generally held that clausal temporal, aspectual and modal features, when encoded morphologically, are expressed by or on clausal heads. However nominals and modifiers within NP can also be inflected for tense, aspect and modal features interpreted ...
Nordlinger, Rachel, Sadler, Louisa
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Abstraction as a basis for the computational interpretation of creative cross-modal metaphor [PDF]
, 2008 Various approaches to computational metaphor interpretation are based on pre-existing similarities between source and target domains and/or are based on metaphors already observed to be prevalent in the language.
Russell, Sylvia Weber
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Nominal Tense in Crosslinguistic Perspective [PDF]
, 2004 It is a general assumption in linguistic theory that the categories of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM) are inflectional categories of verbal classes only.
Nordlinger, Rachel, Sadler, Louisa
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