Polish Deadjectival Nouns as Nominalized Adverbs

Syntactic Lexicon of Polish Predicative Nouns

In the paper we report realization of SyntLex project aiming at construction of a full lexicon grammar for Polish. The lexicongrammar based paradigm in computer linguistics is derived from the predicate logic and attributes a central role to the predicative constructions. An important class of syntactic constructions in many languages (French, English, Polish and other Slavonic languages in par...

Nouns as Adjectives and Adjectives as Nouns

Many languages have morphological devices to turn a noun into an adjective. Often this morphology is genuinely derivational in that it adds a semantic predicate such as ‘havingN’ (proprietive), ‘lacking-N’ (caritive’), ‘similar-to-N’ (similitudinal) and so on. In other cases the denominal adjective expresses some vaguely defined notion of possession as in Russian Ivan-ovo (detstvo) ‘Ivan’s (chi...

Relational Nouns as Anaphors

This paper examines the syntactic and semantic properties of a set of nouns recently called "Relational Nouns" like mother, neighbor, etc. Relational nouns denote relations between individuals, rather than sets of individuals regular nouns denote, and are referentially dependent on individual-denoting expressions. In Japanese relational nouns may appear 'bare' with no genitive possessors in the...

Property Concepts in the Cariban family: Adjectives, Adverbs, and/or Nouns?

Common Nouns as Types

When modern type theories are employed for formal semantics, common nouns (CNs) are interpreted as types, not as predicates. Although this brings about some technical advantages, it is worthwhile to ask: what is special about CNs that merits them to be interpreted as types? We discuss the observation made by Geach that, unlike other lexical categories, CNs have criteria of identity, a component...