Appropriate Nouns with Obligatory Modifiers
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چکیده
This study is about a set of appropriate nouns Napp in French. A sequence is said to be appropriate to a given context [Z.S. Harris, 1970, 1976, pp. 113-114] if it has the highest plausibility of occurrence in that context, and can therefore be reduced to zero. In French, the notion of appropriateness is often connected with a metonymical restructuration of the subject [A. Guillet, Ch. Leclère, 1981]:
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1207.4625 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012