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Fourie, D. J. "kwambil Noun Classes." South African Journal of Linguistics 12, sup19 (1994): 120–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10118063.1994.9724504.

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Kunene, Euphrasia C. L. "Acquisition of siSwati noun classes." South African Journal of African Languages 6, no. 1 (1986): 34–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02572117.1986.10586646.

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Schuh, Russell G. "Avatime noun classes and concord." Studies in African Linguistics 24, no. 2 (1995): 123–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v24i2.107407.

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Avatime is one of 14 "Central-Togo" (or "Togo Remnant") languages, spoken in Ghana, Togo, and Benin. These languages differ from their nearest Kwa group relatives in that they have active systems of noun classes and concord. Avatime has 13 noun classes, each with a distinct nominal prefix. Prefixes (as well as most other affixes) agree in [ATR] vowel harmony with the host noun root. Some classes impose invariable low tone on the prefix while prefix tone of other classes may be any of three lexically determined tones. Definiteness is marked by a set of suffixes. The ultimate segmental shapes an

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Ahn, Kwang-Mo, and Young-Hoon Seo. "Chunking of Contiguous Nouns using Noun Semantic Classes." Journal of the Korea Contents Association 10, no. 3 (2010): 10–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/jkca.2010.10.3.010.

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Konoshenko, Maria, and Dasha Shavarina. "A microtypological survey of noun classes in Kwa." Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 40, no. 1 (2019): 75–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jall-2019-0004.

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AbstractThis paper provides an overview of noun class systems in a sample of 20 Kwa languages. It focuses on the synchronic productivity of noun classification in Kwa as opposed to the full-fledged class system assumed for Proto-Kwa and for the general “Niger-Congo prototype” (Good, Jeff. 2012. How to become a “Kwa” noun.”Morphology22(2). 293–335; Creissels, Denis. Forthcoming. Noun class systems in Atlantic languages. To appear. In Friederike Lüpke (ed.),The Oxford guide to the Atlantic languages of West Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press). The productivity of class morphology on nouns i

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Rijkhoff, Jan. "On flexible and rigid nouns." Parts of Speech: Descriptive tools, theoretical constructs 32, no. 3 (2008): 727–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.32.3.12rij.

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This article argues that in addition to the major flexible lexical categories in Hengeveld’s classification of parts-of-speech systems (Contentive, Non-Verb, Modifier), there are also flexible word classes within the rigid lexical category Noun (Set Noun, Sort Noun, General Noun). Members of flexible word classes are characterized by their vague semantics, which in the case of nouns means that values for the semantic features Shape and Homogeneity are either left undetermined or they are specified in such a way that they do not quite match the properties of the kind of entity denoted by the fl

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Babou, Cheikh Anta, and Michele Loporcaro. "Noun classes and grammatical gender in Wolof." Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 37, no. 1 (2016): 1–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jall-2016-0001.

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AbstractIn this paper, we propose a reassessment of Wolof noun morphology and morphosyntax. Wolof is usually said to possess a total of 10 noun classes (8 for the singular, 2 for the plural), marked today exclusively on agreement targets. We provide evidence that two more plural noun classes must be recognized, which have so far been misinterpreted as “collective” rather than plural: the evidence we provide is morphosyntactic (from verb agreement) as well as morphological (from class-related asymmetries in the paradigm of the indefinite article). As for method, the main thrust of the paper con

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김용하. "Noun classes and subject honorification in Korean." Linguistic Research 29, no. 3 (2012): 563–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.17250/khisli.29.3.201212.005.

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Anttila, Arto, and Vivienne Fong. "Variation, ambiguity, and noun classes in English." Lingua 114, no. 9-10 (2004): 1253–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2003.06.001.

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TESTART, ALAIN. "Moieties, Genders and Noun-Classes in Australia." Mankind 11, no. 1 (2010): 52–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1835-9310.1977.tb01164.x.

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Senft, Gunter. "Colette Craig, ed., Noun Classes and Categorization." Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 22, no. 1 (1990): 173–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03740463.1990.10411527.

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Moroz, George, and Samira Verhees. "Variability in Noun Classes Assignment in Zilo Andi: Experimental Data." Iran and the Caucasus 23, no. 3 (2019): 268–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-20190306.

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This paper evaluates the inter speaker variation in noun class assignment among speakers of the Zilo dialect of Andi (a Nakh-Daghestanian language spoken in the Republic of Daghestan). The nominal lexicon in Andi is divided in three to six classes, depending on the dialect. In dialects with more numerous classes, there are two to three classes for inanimate objects with no obvious semantic distinction between them, while the remaining three classes (male, female, non-human animate) are semantically transparent and predictably refer to either male, female or non-human animate referents respecti

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Simango, Silvester Ron. "Subject marking, coordination and noun classes in ciNsenga." Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 30, no. 2 (2012): 171–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2012.737595.

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Coulibaly, Sékou. "Le système de classes nominales du minyanka." Language in Africa 2, no. 2 (2021): 3–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.37892/2686-8946-2021-2-2-3-42.

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This paper is a description of the noun class system of the Minyanka dialect (Senufo, Gur) spoken in the Penesso village (Segou region, southeastern Mali). It describes the noun class markers and the agreement classes of this dialect. A comparison with other Minyanka dialects already described displays that the dialect spoken in Penesso has undergone a reduction of its agreement classes.

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Diercks, Michael, Linsay Meyer, and Mary Paster. "Agreement with conjoined arguments in Kuria." Studies in African Linguistics 44, no. 1 (2015): 28–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v44i1.107261.

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How languages solve the grammatical problem of agreeing with conjoined arguments is a well-known area of cross-linguistic variation. This paper describes these patterns for Kuria (Bantu, Kenya), documenting a pattern of agreement that has not been previously reported. We show the relevant patterns involving a range of noun classes, showing that human noun classes trigger different effects than non-human noun classes. We also demonstrate distinctions in the grammar between subject marking and object marking: whereas subject marking allows for resolved agreement forms, object marking does not. T

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Meyer, Ronny. "Nominal Number Marking in Wolane." Aethiopica 13 (June 16, 2011): 135–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.15460/aethiopica.13.1.42.

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Countable common nouns in the East Gurage language Wolane are usually unmarked for number and belong to one of three noun classes based on the inherent gender feature of the nouns. First, it will be argued that morphological plural marking indicates plurality and specificity. Second, it will be shown that the interaction between the three noun classes and definiteness has various pragmatic effects. Finally, the findings for Wolane are compared with related East Gurage languages.

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Ourso, Meterwa A. "Phonological processes in the noun class system of lama." Studies in African Linguistics 20, no. 2 (1989): 151–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v20i2.107452.

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The purpose of this paper is to account for the phonological processes taking place within noun classes and across noun classes in Lama, particularly when some class suffixes are attached to noun stems. This study is therefore an overview of the noun class phonology. After an introduction to the phonology and to the noun class system, we will examine specific phonological problems. It will be shown that when some root final sounds are in contact with some suffixes, they undergo structural changes, namely, assimilation, vowel truncation, and root controlled vowel harmony.

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Ngcobo, Mtholeni N. "Zulu noun classes revisited: A spoken corpus-based approach." South African Journal of African Languages 30, no. 1 (2010): 11–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2010.10587332.

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Gagliardi, Annie, and Jeffrey Lidz. "Statistical insensitivity in the acquisition of Tsez noun classes." Language 90, no. 1 (2014): 58–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2014.0013.

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Nelson, Diane, and Virve-Anneli Vihman. "Shifting perspective: noun classes, voice, and animacy type shifts." Theoretical Linguistics 44, no. 1-2 (2018): 57–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tl-2018-0005.

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Kabuya, Nkulu. "The noun classes and concord of Congo Copperbelt Swahili." Studies in African Linguistics 28, no. 1 (1999): 94–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v28i1.107379.

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This paper reconsiders claims that the Swahili of the Congo Copperbelt area has a limited noun class system and an inconsistent system of agreement. It shows that there are, operating side-by-side with the simple system generally presented by scholars, a noun class and concord system of the original Bantu type, and that the prefixes of the latter are in free variation with those of their simplified versions. This free variation is discussed from grammatical, sociolinguistic, and stylistic perspectives. The conclusion reached is that by spreading change in its lexicon and morphosyntax, Congo Co

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Vernoslova, E. I., and Yu I. Konshina. "Semantic environment of the Noun Child in John Dewey’s Monograph “The Child and the Curriculum”." Prepodavatel XXI vek, no. 3, 2020 (2020): 355–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.31862/2073-9613-2020-3-355-367.

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The article dwells upon the semantic environment of the noun child as the most frequently used noun in J. Dewey’s monograph “The Child and the Curriculum”. Distributive analysis and continuous sampling methods applied to the noun “child” highlight lexical units semantically related to the noun “child”. The syntactic functions of the selected lexical units, their semantic classes according to the classification in Roget’s Thesaurus and the intersection areas of semantic classes are studied. The lexical units from the environment of the word “child” are allocated to semantic areas and subject ro

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Nopikasari, Nora, Ani Safitri, and Agung Suhandi. "ANALYSIS WORD CLASSES IN SELECTED POEMS BY ALLAN ALEXANDER MILNE." Premise: Journal of English Education 7, no. 2 (2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.24127/pj.v7i2.1561.

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The objectives of this study are to investigate the word class or known as part of speech from the chosen poems of Alan Alexander Milne. For that reason, five poems of him are analyzed: Wrong House, Furry Bear, If I Were King, The Mirror, dan Hoppity. This study applies descriptive qualitative methods. The procedure of the study covers several steps; dividing words into word class category, analyzing them statistically and reporting the result. Out of the five analyzed poems, there are three-word class categories; verb, noun, an adjective. The most dominant used word class in the poems is noun

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Buvet, Pierre-André, and Pierre-Yves Foucou. "Classes d’objets et recherche sur le web." Lingvisticæ Investigationes. International Journal of Linguistics and Language Resources 23, no. 2 (2000): 219–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/li.23.2.03buv.

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Summary We use the Web as a corpus to validate and extend linguistic descriptions of lexical classes, that are homogeneous from a semantic point of view. We put the emphasis, here, on a 10000-noun class : þprofessionþ.

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Botne, Robert. "Prosodically-conditioned vowel shortening in Chindali." Studies in African Linguistics 27, no. 1 (1998): 97–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v27i1.107386.

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In Chindali [Bantu M21, northern Malawi and southern Tanzania], the augment vowel of noun classes 1 a, Sa, 9 and 10 exhibits allomorphic variation in length. In other noun classes, the vowel of the noun class prefix varies in length before NCinitial stems. The author demonstrates that, in both cases, potentially long vowels become shortened, except that they do so under different conditions: mora-count of the noun stem in the first case, lack of high tone (accent) on the prefix in the second.

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David, Oana. "METAPHOR, METONYMY, AND CATEGORY STRUCTURE IN SEREER- SALOUM NOUN CLASSES." Language Matters 46, no. 2 (2015): 195–221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2015.1016997.

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Kenstowicz, Michael. "On the origin of tonal classes in Kinande noun stems." Studies in African Linguistics 37, no. 2 (2008): 115–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v37i2.107295.

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This paper investigates the Proto-Bantu origins of the principal tonal classes in Kinande nonderived mono- and disyllabic nominal stems. The temary H vs. L vs. 0 distinction in the final syllable of the current language is traced back to a binary H vs. L contrast in Proto Bantu on the basis of two strata of reconstruction: first, a shallow one based on c. 200 PB cognates shared with the closely related Lacustrine languages Runyankore, Haya, and lita, and second, a deeper one based on c. 100 PB cognates shared with the more distantly related Congolese languages Tembo, Luba, and Lingala. A chron

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Allan, Keith, and Colette Craig. "Noun Classes and Categorization: Proceedings of a Symposium on Categorization and Noun Classification, Eugene, Oregon, October 1983." Language 63, no. 4 (1987): 887. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/415722.

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Fichtner, Edward G. "Noun Modifier Inflection in German: A Morphological System in Flux." American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures 2, no. 1 (1990): 23–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1040820700000366.

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ABSTRACTTraditionally, noun modifiers in German fall into two classes, the so-called der- and ein-words, and descriptive or attributive adjectives. In the noun phrase, members of these word classes are inflected by the addition of one or another of two sets of endings, i.e., the primary, strong, or pronominal endings, or the secondary, weak, or nominal endings, in highly predictable combinations. In the data collected by Ljungerud (1955), however, sequences of endings in noun phrases containing nine modifiers occur with noticeable departures from the norm, i.e., folgend, sämtlich, ander-, eini

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Machu, Muniroh. "PERBANDINGAN KELAS KATA BAHASA INDONESIA DENGAN BAHASA MELAYU THAILAND SELATAN." EDU-KATA 7, no. 1 (2021): 39–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.52166/kata.v6i1.1768.

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Comparison of Indonesian word classes with Southern Thai Malay language is a problem, namely how to compare Indonesian word classes with Southern Thai and Malay languages so that there will be no errors in the use of said classes. The purpose of this study is to describe the similarities, differences and comparisons of Indonesian word classes with Southern Thai Malay. The type of research used in this study is a qualitative descriptive study. The results of the study are a comparison of Indonesian word classes with Southern Thai Malay language can be expressed in the same class of words, nam

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Makeeva, Nadezhda, and Andrey Shluinsky. "Numerals in Akebu." Open Linguistics 6, no. 1 (2020): 344–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opli-2020-0107.

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AbstractThis article presents an overview of the numeral system in Akebu, a Kwa language of Togo. The Akebu numeral system is a decimal one and contains simple numerals from ‘1’ to ‘9’ and decimal bases for ‘10’, ‘100’, and ‘1,000’. The former have noun class agreement markers, while the latter do not. Only some noun classes are compatible with numerals, but among them there are both plural and singular classes.

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Sagna, Serge. "A typological overview of Eegimaa (Jóola Banjal)." Studies in African Linguistics 48, no. 1 (2019): 25–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v48i1.114928.

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This paper presents some of the most prominent properties of Eegimaa, a Jóola/Diola2 language spoken in the Basse-Casamance (Southern Senegal). The phonological features examined include [ATR] vowel harmony, backness harmony, lenition, and Eegimaa’s typologically unusual geminate consonants. Most of the paper, however, focuses on Eegimaa morphology. My analysis of the noun class system separates morphological classes from agreement classes (genders), and presents the most important principles of semantic categorization, including shape encoding. I also show that Eegimaa classifies nouns and ve

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Sagna, Serge. "Issues in noun classification and noun class assignment in Gujjolay Eegimaa (Banjal) and other Joola languages." Studies in African Linguistics 39, no. 1 (2010): 1–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v39i1.107286.

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In his book on gender Corbett observes that establishing the number of genders or noun classes in a given language ‘can be the subject of interminable dispute’ (1991: 145). Jóola like Gújjolaay Eegimaa (bqj, Atlantic, Niger-Congo) have noun class systems exhibiting irregular singular-plural matchings and complex agreement correspondences between controller nouns and their targets, resulting in endless disagreements among authors in Jóola linguistics. This paper addresses the issues surrounding noun class assignment in Gújjolaay Eegimaa (Eegimaa henceforth) and other Jóola languages. It provide

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Ningsih, Rahmi Yulia, and Chandra Kurniawan Wiharja. "Noun Phrase in Bahasa Indonesia." Humaniora 8, no. 1 (2017): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/humaniora.v8i1.3698.

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This article contained research about the analysis of the text of Bahasa Indonesia speech with the Systemic Functional Linguistic approach (LFS). The aim of this article was identifying elements of forming noun phrases as the participants which represented processes in clauses, functions, as well as the distribution of its position in the clause. The research method used was qualitative research with the method of data analysis in the form of 60 clauses through the approach of LFS. The 60 clauses data were taken from the text of the speech of UNJ Rector, which was then analyzed into 100 phrase

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Bauer, Laurie. "When is a sequence of two nouns a compound in English?" English Language and Linguistics 2, no. 1 (1998): 65–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674300000691.

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Constructions of noun + noun have been treated in two distinct ways in the literature: either they have been treated as compounds, or they have been treated as noun phrases with modifiers which happen to be nouns. Sometimes it is assumed that there are two distinct classes, which can be neatly distinguished. In this paper it is argued that the criteria which are usually assumed to distinguish between these two construction types do not draw a clear and consistent distinction between a syntactic and a morphological construction. Many of the criteria instead are indirect measures of listedness,

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RODINA, YULIA, and MARIT WESTERGAARD. "A cue-based approach to the acquisition of grammatical gender in Russian." Journal of Child Language 39, no. 5 (2012): 1077–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000911000419.

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ABSTRACTThis article discusses the acquisition of gender in Russian, focusing on some exceptional subclasses of nouns that display a mismatch between semantics and morphology. Experimental results from twenty-five Russian-speaking monolinguals (age 2 ; 6–4 ; 0) are presented and, within a cue-based approach to language acquisition, we argue that children rely on certain morphosyntactic micro-cues in the course of acquisition of semantic agreement. A discrepancy is observed in the acquisition of semantic agreement across the different noun classes, and this suggests that children are highly sen

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Carvalho, Paula. "Grammaires de levée d’ambiguïtés entre noms et adjectifs." Ambiguity 24, no. 1 (2001): 127–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/li.24.1.07car.

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Summary Most of lexical ambiguity caused by homography can only be resolved by the syntactic analysis of the structures where the homographs appear. Thus, in order to resolve ambiguity caused by the homography between nouns and adjectives, we constructed for Portuguese formal grammars that describe noun phrase structures with adjectives. The formal properties of about 2,000 adjectives have been studied and, according to their behavior, they have been integrated in different classes and sub-classes. The syntactic and distributional properties of those adjectives were coded and associated to the

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Hardie, Andrew. "Part-of-speech ratios in English corpora." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12, no. 1 (2007): 55–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.12.1.05har.

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Using part-of-speech (POS) tagged corpora, Hudson (1994) reports that approximately 37% of English tokens are nouns, where ‘noun’ is a superordinate category including nouns, pronouns and other word-classes. It is argued here that difficulties relating to the boundaries of Hudson’s ‘noun’ category demonstrate that there is no uncontroversial way to derive such a superordinate category from POS tagging. Decisions regarding the boundary of the ‘noun’ category have small but statistically significant effects on the ratio that emerges for ‘nouns’ as a whole. Tokenisation and categorisation differe

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Indhiarti, Tantri Refa, and Dwi I. Rizki. "THEY AND ITS LEMMAS AS NON-BINARY THIRD PERSON SINGULAR PRONOUNS IN THE WASHINGTON POST." RETORIKA: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa 4, no. 1 (2018): 17–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.22225/jr.4.1.454.17-25.

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In recent years, it is found that pronoun they and its lemmas are used to refer to singular person to show that the person does not wish to be identified as one of gender binaries. This phenomenon occurs in The Washington Post having added singular they to their stylebook. Therefore this paper aims at elaborating how pronouns they, them, their, theirs, and themselves are used as singular ones in the articles of The Washington Post published in 2016. With the aid of corpus instrument software, this study qualitatively analyses a small corpus consisting of 100 articles. References of pronouns id

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Djomeni, Gabriel Delmon. "The impact of noun classes on tonal changes in associative constructions in Fe’efe’e." South African Journal of African Languages 36, no. 1 (2016): 75–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2016.1186899.

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Taljard, Elsabé, and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver. "A corpus-driven account of the noun classes and genders in Northern Sotho." Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 34, no. 2 (2016): 169–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2016.1206478.

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Fassi Fehri, Abdelkader. "Nominal classes, reference, and functional parameters, with particular reference to Arabic." Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2004 4 (December 31, 2004): 41–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/livy.4.03feh.

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DPs and BNs are used parametrically in Arabic (as well as in other languages) to express generic/existential contrasts, and mass/count oppositions. Unlike English and Romance, Arabic BNs behave like overt indefinites, give rise to bare singulars, and to numeral BNs, obviating scope or opacity distinctions between bare singulars, duals, or plurals. These numerous BN varieties are accounted for via various N-to-F computational processes, involving namely Numeral and Generic positions. Second, indefinite and definite generic types also make use of covert/overt D oppositions, yet they are subjecte

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Sun, Li. "A New Approach of Grammar Teaching: Pre-modifiers in Noun Phrases." Studies in English Language Teaching 8, no. 1 (2020): p38. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/selt.v8n1p38.

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Teaching grammar has always constituted a major part of language education in curricula around the world. This paper investigates pre-modifiers in noun phrase in English and focuses on their definition and classifications. Pervious scholars have different focuses and give various definitions and classifications of pre-modifiers. Through thoroughly evaluating and comparing of the different theories given by previous grammarians and linguists, this study redefines modifiers from a semantic, formal and syntactical perspective and constructs a new classification based on word classes and classifie

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Mel’čuk, Igor. "The notion of inflection and the expression of nominal gender in Spanish." Studies in Language 37, no. 4 (2013): 736–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.37.4.02mel.

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The paper discusses the morphological status and the function of Spanish nominal endings -o and -a (ciel+o ‘sky’ vs. caj+a ‘box’); it is shown that both endings, plus the endings -e and -Ø, are inflectional suffixes that mark, however, not the values of an inflectional category (like nominal number or verbal tense), but the values of a feature of the syntactics of the noun — the nominal gender. The ‘nominal gender’ is defined as a cluster concept based on eight properties; it is a particular case of ‘agreement class’ opposed to ‘noun class.’ Some particularities of Spanish nominal gender are e

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BASSANO, DOMINIQUE. "Early development of nouns and verbs in French: exploring the interface between lexicon and grammar." Journal of Child Language 27, no. 3 (2000): 521–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000900004396.

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Early acquisition of nouns and verbs across languages is a key issue for a number of recent studies that question the reality of the ‘noun-bias’ and wonder about the reasons why it exists as they explore the role of cognitive vs. more language-specific input factors. Addressing this issue, the present study investigates how the noun and verb word classes develop in the free speech of a French child between the ages of 1;2 and 2;6, from the perspective of semantic and grammatical development. The analyses indicate that, in French acquisition, nouns clearly predominate over verbs until age 1;8 a

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Abubakari, Hasiyatu. "Noun class system of Kusaal." Studies in African Linguistics 50, no. 1 (2021): 116–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v50i1.128792.

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It is common knowledge that noun classes in Mabia (Gur) languages are primarily characterized by stems and affixes. Common to all studies on nominal classification in Kusaal is the observation that nouns that exhibit common morphological properties also share identical semantic features. Though this is true to some extent, the generalization breeds a lot of leakages because classifications based on semantic field alone is unable to explain the inclusion of nouns that share identical morphological and phonological features but different semantic features. Thus, this problem questions the assump

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De Raad, Boele. "The replicability of the Big Five personality dimensions in three word‐classes of the Dutch language." European Journal of Personality 6, no. 1 (1992): 15–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/per.2410060103.

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Of the main classes of personality‐descriptive words, verbs, adjectives, and nouns, the class of adjectives has figured as the constant and almost exclusive resource for taxonomic enterprises. In the Dutch language, Brokken (1978) was the first to structure the personality‐descriptive adjectives on a large‐scale basis. The aim of that particular study was not to test the existence of the Big Five in the Dutch language. Of the six Brokken factors, only two or three showed a clear correspondence to the Big Five. Recently, De Raad, Mulder, Kloosterman and Hofstee (1988) and De Raad and Hoskens (1

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Aurilio, Margaret Kochman, James J. Jenkins, and Elaine R. Silliman. "Partial Phonological Marking Facilitates the Acquisition of Noun Subclasses: A Replication." Psychological Reports 86, no. 3 (2000): 975–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.2000.86.3.975.

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This is a partial replication of Brooks, Braine, Catalano, Brody, and Sudhalter (1993). 32 participants learned a miniature linguistic system (MLS). Vocabulary of the MLS consisted of an actor subject, two sets of 19 object nouns, and two sets of three suffixes. In the experimental language, 60% of the nouns were phonologically marked with a common ending for each class; in the control, these endings were distributed across the classes. Participants were trained using pictures. Sentences about the pictures combined the actor's name with an object and an appropriate suffix that described the ac

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Ritter, Elizabeth. "Cross-Linguistic Evidence for Number Phrase." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 37, no. 2 (1992): 197–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100021952.

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In this paper I provide cross-linguistic evidence for a functional projection between D and NP, which I call “Number Phrase” (NumP). In a full noun phrase, the head of this projection is, among other things, the locus of number specification (singular or plural) of a noun phrase. Pronominal noun phrases are distinguished from full noun phrases by the fact that they lack a lexical projection, i.e., they lack a NP. The existence of two distinct functional categories predicts the existence of at least two classes of pronouns, those of the category D, and those of the category Num. In both Modern

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Silveri, Maria Caterina, and Nicoletta Ciccarelli. "Naming of Grammatical Classes in Frontotemporal Dementias: Linguistic and Non Linguistic Factors Contribute to Noun-Verb Dissociation." Behavioural Neurology 18, no. 4 (2007): 197–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/428191.

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