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Surgical Management of a Malunited Vertically Displaced Sacral Fracture: A Case Report. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Spine Surg
Ezzeddine H   +6 more
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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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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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Creative noun–noun compounds

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2005
The paper makes the following novel claims: (1) the semantics of noun–noun compounds which is activated by metaphor and/or metonymy (often termed as “exocentric” compounds in linguistics and generally regarded as semantically opaque) can be accounted for within a cognitive linguistic framework, and the term “creative compound” is proposed for such ...
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