Pre-nominal DP modifiers and penultimate lengthening in Xitsonga

Penultimate lengthening in Bantu Analysis and spread

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Relative clauses and nominal modifiers in Cantonese

Possessive Nominal Expressions in GB: DP vs. NP

1.1 Background Since Steven Abney's 1987 MIT dissertation, The English Noun Phrase in Its Sentential Aspect, the socalled DP Hypothesis has gained acceptance in the eld of Government and Binding (GB) syntax. This hypothesis proposes that a nominal expression is headed by a determiner that takes a noun phrase as its complement. The preexisting NP Hypothesis, on the other hand, diagrams nominal e...

Pre-Noun Modifiers as a Means to Describe Product Characteristics

The article deals with the characteristics of noun phrases functioning in pre-position. Pre-noun modifiers, or attributive modifiers, are among the high-capacity structures in the contemporary English language, as they enable to devoid of prepositions and to describe objects in a laconic way. The goal of this research was to analyze the way scholars interpret this linguistic structure today, as...

Taxonomy of Fine-grain Semantic Roles for Nominal Modifiers

To assign semantic roles in building Treebanks, there is a need for annotators having a guideline in determining semantic relations between phrasal head and its modifiers or arguments. Semantic roles are hard to have clear-cut definitions. It is not always easy to determine thematic relations between two concepts. This paper aims to introduce an integrated nominal modifier system. Basically we ...