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Mutiara, Rika. "Modification of English Complex Noun Phrases: A Case Study of Native and Non-Native Writers." E-Structural 2, no. 01 (2019): 17–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.33633/es.v2i1.2371.

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This study aims at examining differences of complex noun phrases written by Indonesian writers and English native writers in English academic prose particularly undergraduate students’ theses. The complex noun phrases were scrutinized based on how they were modified (Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad, & Finegan, 1999, pp.588-644). Corpus method that is concordance analysis of nouns was applied to identify the modifications. The data were taken from four undergraduate theses. Two of them were written by non-native writers and the others were produced by native writers. The differences cover s

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den Dikken, Marcel, and Pornsiri Singhapreecha. "Complex Noun Phrases and Linkers." Syntax 7, no. 1 (2004): 1–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1368-0005.2004.00064.x.

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Nurdiansyah, Egi, and Intan Satriani. "NOUN PHRASE ANALYSIS OF MAGAZINE ARTICLE “VIDEO GAMES … ARE GOOD FOR YOU?” BY GABRIEL J. ADAMS." PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education) 4, no. 1 (2021): 91. http://dx.doi.org/10.22460/project.v4i1.p91-99.

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Understanding the text is one of the objectives of English study. Before understanding the complex sentence the basic skill that student need to master is to understand the phrases of each sentence. This article objectives are to give more understanding about noun phrases in magazine article to help student easy to understand the basic of English especially phrase. The reason writer choose noun phrase is the most commonly used phrase in the sentence is the noun phrase and the writer want to make the reader familiar with noun phrase. This article will analyze the magazine article with 22 senten

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Coenen, Pascal, and Michael Frotscher. "The nominative/vocative plural of Vedic masculine a-stems in complex nominal expressions." Indogermanische Forschungen 125, no. 1 (2020): 165–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/if-2020-009.

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AbstractIn Vedic Sanskrit, masculine a-stem nominals exhibit two different forms of the nom/voc.pl, a short form (ending in ‑ās) and a long form (ending in ‑āsas). In this article, we will argue that the scope of this variation is not a single nominal but the entire noun phrase. This means that whereas the short form may occur several times in a noun phrase, the long form is either absent or occurs only once. From a functional point of view, complex noun phrases containing one long form are equivalent to simple noun phrases consisting of one long form. In contrast, complex noun phrases contain

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Desmet, Timothy, Marc Brysbaert, and Constantijn De Baecke. "The correspondence between sentence production and corpus frequencies in modifier attachment." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A 55, no. 3 (2002): 879–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724980143000604.

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We examined the production of relative clauses in sentences with a complex noun phrase containing two possible attachment sites for the relative clause (e.g., “Someone shot the servant of the actress who was on the balcony.”). On the basis of two corpus analyses and two sentence continuation tasks, we conclude that much research about this specific syntactic ambiguity has used complex noun phrases that are quite uncommon. These noun phrases involve the relationship between two humans and, at least in Dutch, induce a different attachment preference from noun phrases referring to non-human entit

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Wang, Sue, and Gulbahar H. Beckett. "“My Excellent College Entrance Examination Achievement” — Noun Phrase Use of Chinese EFL Students’ Writing." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 8, no. 2 (2017): 271. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.0802.07.

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Previous studies have shown that phrasal structure, particularly complex noun phrases with phrasal modifiers, is a feature of advanced academic writing. Therefore, it would be important for those who plan to pursue further studies to learn to write in the way that is appropriate for academic writing. Using the manual annotation function of UAM corpus tool, this study compared the noun phrase use of Chinese EFL students’ writing with that of proficient language users. This study also discussed the significant differences found between these two groups in terms of noun phrase use and their impli

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Lewandowski, Marcin. "Complex noun phrases in Polish-English translation: evidence from three registers." Brno Studies in English 41, no. 1 (2015): 61–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/bse2015-1-4.

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Vangsnes, Øystein Alexander. "What kind of Scandinavian? On interrogative noun phrases across North Germanic." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 31, no. 2 (2008): 227–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0332586508001947.

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A central objective of this paper is to show how much variation there is across Scandinavian with respect to the morphosyntactic form of interrogative noun phrases. The present paper focuses on three main types of such DPs: (i) phrases involving a cognate of English which, (ii) phrases involving the same element as manner ‘how’ (which is morphologically complex and distinct from degree ‘how’), and (iii) phrases involving ‘what’ with or without an overt kind noun. With respect to all of these different types of noun-phrase-internal wh-expressions an interesting pattern seems to emerge: there ar

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Sylwanowicz, Marta. "Noun Phrase Modification in Early Modern English Recipes." Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, no. 26/2 (September 11, 2017): 37–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.7311/0860-5734.26.2.03.

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The study of complex noun phrases and their evolution in early English writings has attracted attention of many scholars (e.g. Norri 1989; Raumolin-Brunberg 1991; Moskowich 2009; 2010; Biber et al. 2011; Tyrkkö 2014). These studies have revealed that the trends in the use of pre- and postmodification in noun phrases have been subject to various changes over the centuries. The present paper offers an examination of the preferred patterns of noun phrase modification in Early Modern English medical recipes. The study will investigate whether there was a link between the level of the text (learned

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GÜNTHER, CHRISTINE. "A difficult to explain phenomenon: increasing complexity in the prenominal position." English Language and Linguistics 23, no. 3 (2018): 645–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674318000084.

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In English, the position of the AP in the nominal phrase is determined by its form: only structurally simpler phrases are said to be licit in prenominal position, more complex ones have to follow the noun. Recent studies have reported an increasing use of nominal premodifiers in English, so the question arises whether this trend affects only simpler phrases or whether a new structural option emerges – complex APs in prenominal position. Drawing on data from COHA, this article investigates which types of AP occur prenominally. The data show that certain types of complex APs are gaining ground i

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Honari-Jahromi, Maryam, Brea Chouinard, Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, Liina Pylkkänen, and Alona Fyshe. "Neural representation of words within phrases: Temporal evolution of color-adjectives and object-nouns during simple composition." PLOS ONE 16, no. 3 (2021): e0242754. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242754.

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In language, stored semantic representations of lexical items combine into an infinitude of complex expressions. While the neuroscience of composition has begun to mature, we do not yet understand how the stored representations evolve and morph during composition. New decoding techniques allow us to crack open this very hard question: we can train a model to recognize a representation in one context or time-point and assess its accuracy in another. We combined the decoding approach with magnetoencephalography recorded during a picture naming task to investigate the temporal evolution of noun a

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Carrió Pastor, María Luisa, and Miguel Ángel Candel Mora. "Variation in the translation patterns of English complex noun phrases into Spanish in a specific domain." Languages in Contrast 13, no. 1 (2013): 28–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lic.13.1.02car.

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This paper focuses on a functionalist analysis of the patterns followed when translating specific texts from English into Spanish. The original texts are written in English and, afterwards, translated to other languages. In this process, lexical variation may appear. The main objectives of this study are to determine whether English noun phrases have different lexical equivalents when translated into Spanish and whether this depends on the position of the head in the complex noun phrase. Other objectives of this paper are, on the one hand, to detect the role of the head and modifiers in Englis

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Dikken, Marcel den. "Amharic Relatives and Possessives: Definiteness, Agreement, and the Linker." Linguistic Inquiry 38, no. 2 (2007): 302–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/ling.2007.38.2.302.

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Ouhalla's (2004) valuable discussion of relativized and possessed noun phrases in Amharic leaves a number of questions open. Foremost among these is the placement of the linker element yä-. Starting from an analysis of relative clauses and possessors as predicates of their “heads,” this article develops a syntax of complex noun phrases in Amharic that explains the raison d'être and placement of yä-, and also accommodates facts about definiteness marking and agreement in the Amharic complex noun phrase that have hitherto largely escaped attention or analysis. The analysis emphasizes the role of

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Jordan, Michael P. "Toward Plain Language: A Guide to Paraphrasing Complex Noun Phrases." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 24, no. 1 (1994): 77–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/fhed-rmjg-y03y-y4uj.

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Complex noun phrases, although key elements in technical writing for linguistically mature readers, also present major comprehension difficulties for others. This article establishes many important ways of paraphrasing complex noun phrases into simpler structures, and identifies the differences in meaning, style, is tone, and emphasis created by the paraphrases. Whereas many complex noun phrases at the start of the sentence can be easily paraphrased, those at the end of the sentence or embedded within the sentence present greater challenges. Similarly restrictive post-modifiers are easier to p

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Heycock, Caroline, and Roberto Zamparelli. "Coordinated Bare Definites." Linguistic Inquiry 34, no. 3 (2003): 443–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/002438903322247551.

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Recent work on the syntax and semantics of functional projections within the noun phrase has had as one goal an explanation for the crosslinguistic distribution of “bare” (determinerless) noun phrases. This article provides an account for an apparent anomaly: the relatively free occurrence of bare noun phrases under coordination. We argue that this construction involves coordination of projections below the DP level, with the coordinated structure subsequently raising to Spec, DP.Our analysis accounts for the fact that these nominals are endowed with uniqueness conditions, but only in some cas

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Bello, Usman Muhammed, and Rachel Afegbua Zainab. "Complexity in the Noun Phrase Structure of the Nigerian EFCC Act." International Journal of Linguistics and Translation Studies 1, no. 1 (2020): 54–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlts.v1i1.12.

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This research examines the noun phrase structure in the EFCC Act. Other English phrases (verb, adjectival, adverbial, and prepositional phrases) are unimportant to this study except, of course, when they relate to noun phrase. The design for the research is qualitative/content analysis. The EFCC Act provides the data for the study. Noun phrases of different realisations are randomly selected from the text in order to establish the extent of their complexity or otherwise by categorizing the kinds of structure that pre-modify or post-modify the head word. These are further examined in order to e

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Njobvu, Naomi. "VN Phrasal Compounds in Cinyanja." Journal of Law and Social Sciences 3, no. 1 (2020): 68–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.53974/unza.jlss.3.1.453.

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This article aims at discussing verb-noun compounds with a locative prefix in the nominal part of the compounds in Cinyanja. The singular and plural forms of the compounds have been presented to show that the complex forms are nouns. With regard to the internal structure, the compounds show that they have a phrasal structure. Since verb-noun compounds in this study resemble the structure of synthetic compounds in English, the analysis of these words followed the syntactic approach. The results show that internally, the compounds with a locative have a verb phrase internal structure, and follow

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Benson, Peace. "A Description of Dzә (Jenjo) Nouns and Noun Phrases, an Adamawa Language of Northeastern Nigeria". Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies 12, № 4 (2020): 490–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2020.402.

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Dzə [jen] is an Adamawa language spoken in some parts of Taraba, Adamawa and Gombe states in Northeastern Nigeria. The study presented in the article syntactically describes nouns and noun phrases in Dzə. In an attempt to document Dzə and taking into consideration that Dzə is an under-investigated and under-documented language, the result will provide important data to typological research and to linguists working on Adamawa languages. The study adopts a descriptive research design in collecting, describing and analyzing the data. The data was obtained from fieldwork in December 2014, personal

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Booij, Geert. "Phrasal names: A constructionist analysis." Word Structure 2, no. 2 (2009): 219–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e1750124509000427.

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Some types of phrases share the naming function with complex words. Hence both phrases and words can be lexical units stored in the lexicon. This article discusses how the functional equivalence between words and phrases can be accounted for without ignoring their formal differences. Such types of phrases can be characterized in terms of phrasal schemas with specific properties, that is, as constructions. The article focuses on the formal properties of adjective+noun sequences with a naming function, in particular in Modern Greek and Dutch. The constructionist approach is able to do justice to

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Mukherjee, Prasenjit, Atanu Chattopadhyay, Baisakhi Chakraborty, and Debashis Nandi. "Natural language query handling using extended knowledge provider system." International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering Systems 25, no. 1 (2021): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/kes-210049.

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Extraction of knowledge data from knowledge database using natural language query is a difficult task. Different types of natural language processing (NLP) techniques have been developed to handle this knowledge data extraction task. This paper proposes an automated query-response model termed Extended Automated Knowledge Provider System (EAKPS) that can manage various types of natural language queries from user. The EAKPS uses combination based technique and it can handle assertive, interrogative, imperative, compound and complex type query sentences. The algorithm of EAKPS generates structur

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Wu, Hsiao-hung Iris. "Complex Noun Phrases and Formal Licensing in Isbukun Bunun." Oceanic Linguistics 53, no. 2 (2014): 207–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ol.2014.0016.

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Pereltsvaig, А., and O. Kagan. "Adjectives in layers." Rhema, no. 4, 2018 (2018): 125–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.31862/2500-2953-2018-4-125-165.

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This paper investigates the syntax and semantics of modifying/attributive adjectives in Russian, a language lacking articles but having complex patterns of case marking and agreement within a noun phrase. It has been claimed in the literature that due to its lack of articles, Russian has a completely different internal structure for noun phrases than in languages with articles. In this paper we argue against that claim and propose that there are six layers of functional structure within a noun phrase which modifying adjectives can occupy.

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Koch, Karsten A. "Some properties of prosodic phrasing in Thompson Salish." ZAS Papers in Linguistics 52 (January 1, 2010): 141–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.52.2010.386.

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In Nłeʔkepmxcin, consonant-heavy inventories, lengthy obstruent clusters and widespread glottalization can make potential F0 cues to prosodic phrase boundaries (e.g. boundary tones or declination reset) difficult to observe phonetically. In this paper, I explore a test that exploits one behaviour of phrasefinal consonant clusters to test for prosodic phrasing in Nłeʔkepmxcin clauses. Final /t/ of the 1pl marker kt is aspirated when phrase-final, but not phraseinternally. Use of this test suggests that Thompson Salish speakers parse verbs, arguments and adjuncts into separate phonological phras

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Cho, Keeseok. "The Reversibility of Modifiers and Modificands in Noun Phrases, Verb Phrases, and Complex Sentences." Institute of British and American Studies 42 (February 28, 2018): 123–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.25093/jbas.2018.42.123.

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Lorimor, Heidi, Carrie N. Jackson, and Janet G. van Hell. "The interaction of notional number and morphophonology in subject–verb agreement: A role for working memory." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 72, no. 4 (2018): 890–900. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1747021818771887.

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Research shows that cross-linguistically, subject–verb agreement with complex noun phrases (e.g., The label on the bottles) is influenced by notional number and the presence of homophony in case, gender, or number morphology. Less well-understood is whether notional number and morphophonology interact during speech production, and whether the relative impact of these two factors is influenced by working memory capacity. Using an auditory sentence completion task, we investigated the impact of notional number and morphophonology on agreement with complex subject noun phrases in Dutch. Results r

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Lohnstein, Horst. "Sentence mood constitution and indefinite noun phrases." ZAS Papers in Linguistics 23 (January 1, 2001): 141–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.23.2001.118.

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Sentence mood in German is a complex category that is determined by various components of the grammatical system. In particular, verbal mood, the position of the finite verb and the wh-characteristics of the so called 'Vorfeld'-phrase are responsible for the constitution of sentence mood in German. This article proposes a theory of sentence mood constitution in German and investigates the interaction between the pronominal binding of indefinite noun phrases which are semantically analyzed as choice functions. It is shown that the semantic objects determined by sentence mood define different ki

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Lau, Thu. "Noun Phrase Construction in Academic Research Articles." IJOHMN (International Journal online of Humanities) 3, no. 6 (2017): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijohmn.v3i6.44.

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The study explored the syntactic complexity and semantic function of noun phrases in TESOL academic research articles. The corpus was comprised of 60 articles (572874 words) from three TESOL journals including TESOL Quarterly, TESOL Journal, and Journal of Second Language Writing. POS tagging was added to the corpus using TagAnt 1.2.0 (Anthony, 2015). A list of 20 highest-frequency nouns was generated using wordlist tool in AntConc 3.3.4 (Anthony, 2014). Based on the specific contexts of these nouns, the researcher analyzed the syntactic complexity of noun phrases in light of their pre-modifie

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Trobevšek Drobnak, Frančiška. "Iconicity and Distribution of Complex Verbal Phrases in English." ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 12, no. 2 (2015): 99–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/elope.12.2.99-112.

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The aim of the paper is to look into how the use and distribution of complex verbal phrases in English comply with the postulates of the theories of constructional iconicity, frequency asymmetries and naturalness, especially in the initial stages of their proliferation. The three theoretical frameworks are first outlined and compared, and predictions ensuing from them are formulated as to the expected behaviour of complex versus simple linguistic constructions. Two types of complex verbal constructions are examined from the point of view of these predictions: the progressive verbal phrase be +

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Elhadad, Michael. "Lexical choice for complex noun phrases: Structure, modifiers, and determiners." Machine Translation 11, no. 1-3 (1996): 159–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00349356.

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Johnson, Marcus L., Matthew W. Lowder, and Peter C. Gordon. "The sentence-composition effect: Processing of complex sentences depends on the configuration of common noun phrases versus unusual noun phrases." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 140, no. 4 (2011): 707–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0024333.

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Vadas, David, and James R. Curran. "Parsing Noun Phrases in the Penn Treebank." Computational Linguistics 37, no. 4 (2011): 753–809. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00076.

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Noun phrases (nps) are a crucial part of natural language, and can have a very complex structure. However, this np structure is largely ignored by the statistical parsing field, as the most widely used corpus is not annotated with it. This lack of gold-standard data has restricted previous efforts to parse nps, making it impossible to perform the supervised experiments that have achieved high performance in so many Natural Language Processing (nlp) tasks. We comprehensively solve this problem by manually annotating np structure for the entire Wall Street Journal section of the Penn Treebank. T

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Halevy, Rivka. "The ‘swift of foot’ construction and the phrase structure of the adjectival construct in Hebrew." Studies in Language 40, no. 2 (2016): 380–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.40.2.04hal.

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This article sheds new light on the puzzling phrase structure of complex adjectival phrases which are common in Semitic, specifically in Hebrew, and which are equivalent to Indo-European phrases such as ‘swift of foot.’ The article draws a clear distinction between these constructions and adjectival compounds such as ‘swift-footed’, which are prevalent in major Indo-European languages but are absent from Semitic languages. The Hebrew construction under discussion is a genitival construct consisting of an adjective followed by a modifying noun in genitive status. The adjective is the head of th

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Klaus, Jana, and Herbert Schriefers. "An investigation of the role of working memory capacity and naming speed in phonological advance planning in language production." Mental Lexicon 13, no. 2 (2018): 159–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ml.17020.kla.

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Abstract Producing multi-word utterances is a complex, yet relatively effortless process. Research with the picture-word interference paradigm has shown that speakers can plan all elements of such utterances up to the phonological level before initiating speech, yet magnitude and direction of this phonological priming effect (i.e. facilitative vs. inhibitory) differ between but also within studies. We investigated possible sources for variability in the phonological advance planning scope. In two experiments, participants produced bare nouns (“monkey”) and complex noun phrases (“the small red

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Curenton, Stephanie M., and Laura M. Justice. "African American and Caucasian Preschoolers’ Use of Decontextualized Language." Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 35, no. 3 (2004): 240–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/0161-1461(2004/023).

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Purpose: Low-income preschoolers’ use of literate language features in oral narratives across three age groups (3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds) and two ethnic groups (Caucasian and African American) was examined. Method: Sixty-seven preschoolers generated a story using a wordless picture book. The literate language features examined were simple and complex elaborated noun phrases, adverbs, conjunctions, and mental/linguistic verbs. Results: Literate language features occurred at measurable rates for 3- to 5-year-old children. Conjunction use was positively associated with the use of complex elaborate

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Schlechtweg, Marcel. "The naming potential of compounds and phrases: An empirical study on German adjective-noun constructions." Word Structure 11, no. 3 (2018): 359–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/word.2018.0133.

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Using data from two empirical studies, the present article investigates whether German adjective-noun compounds are inherently more appropriate to function as naming units or kind terms than the corresponding phrases. In the first experiment, it was tested whether subjects prefer a non-lexicalized compound (e.g., Kurzcouch, short_couch) or the respective non-lexicalized phrasal counterpart (e.g., kurze Couch, short couch) in order to express a novel complex lexical concept (e.g., It is a very specific couch that is 1.30 meters short because it is designed only for children up to this size.). I

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Collis, Glyn M. "In (the) front of the car: complex prepositions and noun phrases." First Language 10, no. 30 (1990): 265. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/014272379001003015.

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Wang, Li, and Fei Pei. "Types and Features of Noun Phrase in Chinese Scholars’ Abstracts." International Journal of English Linguistics 5, no. 6 (2015): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v5n6p84.

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<p>Noun phrases, as the basic components of sentences, carry large amounts of information. Based on corpus-based research method, this study aims to explore the use of nouns in the journal abstracts written by Chinese scholars. Statistically significant difference was found in the noun <em>effect</em> between Chinese scholars’ dissertation abstracts (CSDA) and English-speaking scholars’ dissertation abstracts (ESDA), so <em>effect </em>was chosen as an example word throughout the research. The results show that (1) Chinese scholars tend to use more simple noun phr

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Jordan, Michael. "Towards an Understanding of Mature Writing: Analyzing and Paraphrasing Complex Noun Phrases." Canadian Journal for Studies in Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie 11, no. 2 (1993): 39–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.352.

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Bentounsi, Imene, and Zizette Boufaïda. "Disambiguation of semantic types in complex noun phrases for extracting candidate terms." International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies 10, no. 2 (2015): 112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijmso.2015.070830.

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AMBRIDGE, BEN, CAROLINE F. ROWLAND, and ALISON GUMMERY. "Teaching the unlearnable: a training study of complex yes/no questions." Language and Cognition 12, no. 2 (2020): 385–410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2020.5.

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ABSTRACTA central question in language acquisition is how children master sentence types that they have seldom, if ever, heard. Here we report the findings of a pre-registered, randomised, single-blind intervention study designed to test the prediction that, for one such sentence type, complex questions (e.g., Is the crocodile who’s hot eating?), children could combine schemas learned, on the basis of the input, for complex noun phrases (the [THING] who’s [PROPERTY]) and simple questions (Is [THING] [ACTION]ing?) to yield a complex-question schema (Is [the [THING] who’s [PROPERTY]] ACTIONing?)

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Kolářová, Veronika, Jan Kolář, and Marie Mikulová. "Difference between Written and Spoken Czech: The Case of Verbal Nouns Denoting an Action." Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 107, no. 1 (2017): 19–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pralin-2017-0002.

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Abstract The present paper extends understanding of differences in expressing actions by verbal nouns in corpora of written vs. spoken Czech, namely in the Czech part of the Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank and in the Prague Dependency Treebank of Spoken Czech. We show that while the written corpus includes more complex noun phrases with more explicit expression of adnominal participants, noun phrases in the spoken corpus contain more deletions and more exophoric references. We also carried out a quantitative analysis focusing on relative frequencies of combinations of participants mod

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Ndomba, Rodrick G. "Deriving Object Relatives in Kiswahili Determiner Phrases." Utafiti 15, no. 1 (2020): 117–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26836408-15010026.

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Abstract Generally one finds there are shortages in the array of technical resources available to penetrate the morphology of Kiswahili and its similarities to, as well as its departures from, morphemic structures in other Bantu languages. The introduction of a new approach employed here is an attempt to contribute to correcting that deficit. Object relative Determiner Phrases (DPs) in Kiswahili are common noun phrases with the noun head called the object relative appearing in the initial position of the DP. The phrases also have relative words and clitics introducing relative clauses. In Kisw

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García-Page, Mario. "Collocations complexes (application à l’espagnol)." Lingvisticæ Investigationes. International Journal of Linguistics and Language Resources 34, no. 1 (2011): 68–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/li.34.1.03gar.

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Complex collocations are a type of collocation whose syntactic structure is more complex than that of simple collocations. Thus, they are binary standardized or frequent phrases whose components show a lexical restriction relationship. The complex character of its structure means that one of its components, the collocative, is not a lexical unit, but rather a fixed phrase. Most of them are adverbial, either in the case of verbal predicates (llover a cántaros) or adjectival predicates (loco de atar), although they can also — in less frequent cases — be adjectival, as when combined with a noun (

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Fabijanić, Ivo. "English Word-Formation Types in Croatian: The Case of Morphological Adaptation of Noun Phrases in Economic Terminology." ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 14, no. 2 (2017): 9–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/elope.14.2.9-23.

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The influx of Anglicisms is no longer limited to simple and open-class words in a lexicon, but it is also open to complex words and multiword expressions (e.g., phraseological units and simple sentences). Complex words are not only borrowed with their original English affixes (prefixes), but can also be formed with the addition of bound morphemes from the recipient language. This paper aims to shed more light on current Anglicisms in terms of noun phrase formation and adaptation from economic terminology into the Croatian language. It presents the results of transmorphemisation within a three-

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Foote, Rebecca. "The production of gender agreement in native and L2 Spanish: The role of morphophonological form." Second Language Research 31, no. 3 (2015): 343–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267658314565691.

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In native speakers of gender-marking languages, mechanisms of gender production appear to be affected by the morphophonological cues to gender present in the noun phrase. This influence is manifested in higher levels of production accuracy when more transparent cues to gender are present in comparison to when they are not. The goal of the present study was to examine the role of morphophonological cues to gender in the production of gender agreement in native speakers and second language learners of Spanish in light of the Marking and Morphing account of agreement (Eberhard et al., 2005). Part

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PAPADOPOULOU, DESPINA, and HARALD CLAHSEN. "Ambiguity resolution in sentence processing: the role of lexical and contextual information." Journal of Linguistics 42, no. 1 (2006): 109–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226705003701.

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This study investigates how the parser employs thematic and contextual information in resolving temporary ambiguities during sentence processing. We report results from a sentence-completion task and from a self-paced reading experiment with native speakers of Greek examining two constructions under different referential context conditions: relative clauses (RCs) preceded by complex noun phrases with genitives, [NP1+NP2Gen], and RCs preceded by complex noun phrases containing prepositional phrases, [NP1+PP[P NP2]]. We found different attachment preferences for these two constructions, a high (

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Hermann, Manon. "The semantics of German posture and placement verbs in noun-verb phrases." Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 7, no. 1 (2019): 93–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/gcla-2019-0007.

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Abstract In this contribution, we study the use of the German verbs stehen (‘to stand’), sitzen (‘to sit’) and their causative equivalents stellen (‘to put in a standing position’) and setzen (‘to put in a sitting position’) in noun-verb phrases, such as an der Spitze stehen (lit. ‘to stand at the top’ = ‘to be at the top’) or auf die Beine stellen (lit. ‘to put upright on the legs’ = ‘to achieve’). Among these phrases we are looking more particularly at the subcategory of complex noun-verb phrases which are commonly referred to as Funktionsverbgefüge in German. Numerous examples from the corp

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Jönsson, Martin L., and James A. Hampton. "The modifier effect in within-category induction: Default inheritance in complex noun phrases." Language and Cognitive Processes 27, no. 1 (2012): 90–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2010.544107.

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Thornton, Robert, Maryellen C. MacDonald, and Mariela Gil. "Pragmatic constraint on the interpretation of complex noun phrases in Spanish and English." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 25, no. 6 (1999): 1347–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.25.6.1347.

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Park, Boon-Joo, and Sungmook Choi. "The Eye-Tracking Approach to EFL Learners’ Sentence Processing Modifying Complex Noun Phrases." Studies in Modern Grammar 108 (December 30, 2020): 143–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.14342/smog.2020.108.143.

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