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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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On the Origin of Philippine Vowel Grades [PDF]
, 2006 The concept of vowel grade by which morphological features in some Indo- European languages are signaled by change in the quality of the vowel of a given form has long been recognized.
Reid, Lawrence A.
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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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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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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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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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Facts, ideas, questions, problems, and issues in advanced learners’ English
NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2012 Recurrent word combinations containing the nouns fact, idea, question, problem and issue are explored in three corpora of advanced learner English and a corpus of native speaker English, focusing on the comparison between Norwegian learners and native ...
Hilde Hasselgård
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, 2013 This paper is concerned with semantic noun phrase typology, focusing on the question of how to draw fine-grained distinctions necessary for an accurate account of natural language phenomena.
Farkas, Donka F.
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Non-situational functions of demonstrative noun phrases in Lingala (Bantu) [PDF]
, 2012 This paper examines the non-situational (i.e., non-exophoric) pragmatic functions of the three adnominal demonstratives, oyo, wand, and yango in the Bantu language Lingala.
Meeuwis, Michael, Stroeken, Koenraad
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