Abstract The article deals with attributive modification in South American languages. It focuses on descriptive terms that denote properties. First of all, it is observed property possible most, but not all typology constructions argued to constitute a continuum, from syntactically loose nominal expressions, the one hand, morphologically complex structures which are ambiguous between compoundin...

Extended fuzzy description logic EFALCN (extended fuzzy attributive concept description language with complements and unqualified number restriction) is the fuzzy extension of the description logic with numerical restriction ALCN (attributive concept description language with complements and unqualified number restriction), but it lacks of reasoning algorithms and complexity analysis for reason...

This is a paper about premodification in the English noun phrase, focusing on functions of attributive adjectives. Modification in general is an issue that has received comparatively little attention in linguistic research, at least outside the field of syntax (see eg Frawley 1992: 437); Although there are some systematic descriptions of premodifier functions to be found in the literature, much...

This study, performed on children aged 5, 8, and 10, and on adults, deals with conceptual knowledge organization using a word association task. Participants were presented with concept nouns at superordinate, basic, and subordinate level. Their productions were coded according to 4 kinds of relations: taxonomic, thematic, attributive, and evaluative relations. The following results were found a...

Goal and Background: This paper provides evidence that Hocąk (Siouan) has direct modification, contra Helmbrecht’s (2004) claim that all adjectives in Hocąk are indirect modifiers. The data also show that lack of rigid ordering is not a reliable diagnostic for indirect modification (contra Cinque 2010). Following Sproat and Shih (1991), Cinque (2010) argues that indirect modification is higher,...