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Syntax of Dutch: Adpositions and Adpositional Phrases
, 2013 The volume Adpositions and Adpositional Phrases discusses the internal make-up and the distribution of adpositional phrases. Topics that are covered include complementation and modification of adpositional phrases, as well as their predicative ...
Hans Broekhuis, Broekhuis, Hans
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, 2021 This chapter is concerned with the size of noun phrases in languages with and, more importantly, without articles. It is argued that noun phrases in such languages may – but need not – contain the functional projection of DP.
Asya M. Pereltsvaig
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Agreement with conjoined singular noun phrases in Icelandic
Glossa, 2019 This article presents results from a study on agreement with conjoined singular noun phrases in Icelandic. A survey was conducted to elicit agreement choices on two agreement targets (predicate adjectives and personal pronouns) with agreement controllers
Thorbjorg Thorvaldsdóttir
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Maasai gender in typological perspective
Studies in African Linguistics, 1998 Maasai nouns (or determined NPs) occur in one of three genders: masculine/ augmentative, feminine/diminutive, or place (the last is extremely limited). The Maasai gender system is semantic rather than formal (i.e., based on phonological or morphological ...
Doris Payne
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Noun-noun collocations in learner writing
, 2015 © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Studies of collocations to date have emphasised use and learning of noun-verb and adjective-noun collocations. This study uses three sub-corpora of the ICLE corpus to investigate use of noun-noun collocations by learners in their ...
Jean Parkinson (8509689)
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The origin of a product, if associated with good quality, can contribute to building a positive collective reputation, leading to a potential price premium. However, it is conceivable that a producer markets a product by evoking symbols, images, words, and values typical of places other than where it was designed or produced, creating a ...
Annalisa Caloffi +2 more
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Ex Anniana Milonis domo : les syntagmes nominaux avec deux compléments de possession
Pallas, 2016 The objective of this article is to examine noun phrases containing a possessive genitive and an adjective derived from a proper noun. Although such constructions are not very frequently attested, examples of them are provided by avalent nouns that ...
Olga Spevak
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The noun phrase and its translation in the novel “Budha, a story of enlightenment”
Journal of Applied Studies in Language, 2021 The paper analyzes the form of the noun phrase and its translation shift found in the novel “Budha, A Story of Enlightenment”. The shift in translation is stated as a major concept in a sentence analysis found in translation.
I Made Juliarta
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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Topologische Eigenschaften der Funktionsverbgefüge im heutigen Deutsch
Studia Linguistica, 2023 Light verb constructions (German Funktionsverbgefüge = FVGs) are complex predicates consisting of a semantically light verb, which has lost its lexical meaning and just has a functional role, and a noun phrase (with or without preposition).
Ireneusz Gaworski
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