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Quantifying relational nouns in corpora

English Language and Linguistics, 2022
While relational nouns (cousin) are traditionally delineated in a binary and theory-dependent manner, this article approximates relationality as a continuous, objective corpus metric (Percent Possessive) – allowing for lexicon-wide exploration of which ...
Lelia Glass
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The Interpretation of Relational Nouns [PDF]

Proceedings of the 26th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics -, 1988
This paper decribes a computational treatment of the semantics of relational nouns. It covers relational nouns such as "sister" and "commander", and focuses especially on a particular subcategory of them, called function nouns ("speed", "distance ...
J. D. Bruin, R. Scha
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Predicative Possessives, Relational Nouns, and Floating Quantifiers [PDF]

Linguistic Inquiry, 2019
Green (1971) notes the apparent unacceptability of certain quantificational expressions as possessors of singular head nouns. We provide data from a range of English dialects to show that such constructions are not straightforwardly unacceptable, but ...
G. Tsoulas, R. Woods
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Anchoring Meaning: Relational Nouns and Language Change in Italian

Languages
This study examines the structure and use of Axial Parts and Relational Nouns in Italian from both a syntactic and diachronic perspective. In the first part, we argue that these elements function as nouns and establish an elementary predicate relation of
Ludovico Franco, Federico Schirato
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6. Possessives and relational nouns [PDF]

International Conference on Semantic Systems, 2019
This article concentrates on nominal possessives (John’s friend) rather than on verbal possessives (John has a friend). In John’s friend, John is the possessor, and friend describes the entity possessed (the possessee).
C. Barker
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Relational Nouns, Pronouns, and Resumption

Linguistics and Philosophy, 2005
This paper presents a variable-free analysis of relational nouns in Glue Semantics, within a Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) architecture. Relational nouns and resumptive pronouns are bound using the usual binding mechanisms of LFG. Special attention is paid to the bound readings of relational nouns, how these interact with genitives and obliques, and
A. Asudeh
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Relational Nouns and Reciprocal Plurality

Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2007
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P. Staroverov
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The interaction between spatial cases and relational nouns in the Uralic languages of the Volga–Kama area

Voprosy jazykoznanija, 2022
In this paper we take a look at the variation between plain spatial cases and relational nouns in expressions of two spatial relations, namely CONTAINMENT and SUPPORT, in the Uralic languages of the Volga–Kama area (Erzya, Moksha, Meadow Mari, Hill Mari,
Tomi Koivunen
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Deverbal and deadjectival nominalization in Dan: Not as different as one might think. A reply to Baker & Gondo (2020)

Glossa, 2021
The paper (Baker & Gondo 2020) studies several issues in Dan morphosyntax: the formal differences between verbs, nouns and adjectives; two types of possessive constructions (with alienable and inalienable head nouns) and their syntactic structures; the ...
Valentin Feodosievich Vydrin
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Local versus long-distance bound implicit arguments of inalienable relational nouns in Chinese

Journal of Linguistics, 2021
This paper argues that inalienable relational nouns in Mandarin Chinese, specifically kinship nouns (KNs, e.g. father, sister) and body-part nouns (BPNs, e.g. head, face), have an implicit reflexive argument.
A. Ke, Acrisio Pires
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