Adjective-noun order in Papiamento-Dutch code-switching

Phonological conditions on variable adjective-noun word order in Tagalog

Tagalog adjectives and nouns variably occur in two word orders, separated by an intermediary linker: adjective-linker-noun versus noun-linker-adjective. The linker has two phonologicallyconditioned surface forms (–ng and na). This paper presents a large-scale, web-based corpus study of adjective/noun order variation in Tagalog, focusing in particular on phonological conditions. Results show tha...

Factors that Influence Children’s Acquisition of Adjective-Noun Order

Usage-Based theoreticians have argued that children make the biggest strides in learning to use many adult-like grammatical rules in the preschool years. This argument is based on how children use novel verbs in verb clauses: many Englishspeaking 2-year olds are willing to use novel verbs in ungrammatical order; by 4, few children are willing to use novel verbs in a non-SVO order. In verb claus...

Determinants of Adjective-Noun Plausibility

This paper explores the determinants of adjective-noun plausibility by using correlation analysis to compare judgements elicited from human subjects with five corpus-based variables: co-occurrence frequency of the adjective-noun pair, noun frequency, conditional probability of the noun given the adjective, the log-likelihood ratio, and Resnik’s (1993) selectional association measure. The highes...

Adjective - Noun 1 Global and local influences on adjective - noun combination : A limit on incrementality

Word Order, Intonation, and Noun Phrase Interpretation in Dutch

On one reading, illegalen refers to a group of illegal aliens that has not been previously mentioned, and which is introduced in the discourse by the very mentioning of the word illegalen. This is the existential reading (which will also be referred to as the weak reading, following De Hoop 1992). On another reading, illegalen refers to the kind of people who are called `illegal aliens', and (1...