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Nouns and noun phrases

1988
Nouns The general term ‘noun’ is applied to a grammatically distinct word class in a language having the following properties: (a) It contains amongst its most central members those words that denote persons or concrete objects. (b) Its members head phrases – noun phrases – which characteristically function as subject or object in clause structure ...
Payne, J., Huddleston, R. D.
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Nouns on Nouns

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1984
To the Editor.— Maybe I am a word freak, but isn't there something we can do about that bloated verbal monstrosity the health care delivery system? It's not that I am against health care. But why mess with that word delivery? It adds nothing to the meaning and it saps attention that the reader can ill afford to waste.
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Count Nouns and Mass Nouns

Analysis, 1978
Discussion de la these de P.T. Geach sur la "derelativisation" dans l'analyse des noms referant a des objets "comptables" et a des objets non comptables "mass-terms". Selon l'A., cette these n'est adequate qu'aux noms comptables concrets. Pour les noms de "masse" concrets, il faut preferer l'analyse classique de Frege.
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The electrophysiological correlates of Noun–Noun compounds

Brain and Language, 2007
The ‘‘head’’ of a compound is the component determining the lexical category, the gender and the semantic traits of the whole compound. Despite its importance, the precise role of the ‘‘head’’ dimension has been almost missing from aphasiological investigations (Semenza & Mondini, 2006).
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Noun phrases without nouns

Functions of Language, 2004
In this paper, I investigate the theoretical status of noun phrases without nouns, i.e. noun phrases that do not contain a noun or pronoun, but only words that otherwise occur as modifiers of nouns. I investigate six possible analyses for such noun phrases: (1) that they are elliptical, (2) that the apparent modifiers are nouns, (3) that the apparent ...
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Nouns, Noun Phrases and Pronouns

1987
This chapter deals with three interrelated topics. Section 3.2 is concerned with the classification of nouns in English and Dutch and with the ways in which the two languages express number, case and gender distinctions. The structure of the noun phrase in English and Dutch is compared in section 3.3. It is in this area that some of the major syntactic
Herman Wekker, Flor Aarts
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