This article addresses the issue of selection restrictions for noun phrase specifiers. Danish data is presented which shows that definiteness plays an important role in this respect. It is pointed out that an analysis is required in which the specifier, when present, leaves a mark on the projected phrase. This is achieved by assuming that specifiers are syntactic heads of noun phrase constructi...

The most important problems of dependency analysis are separated into three kinds of dependencies: noun to verb dependency, verb to verb dependency and noun to noun dependency. Recently, efficient methods have been developed for the first two problems. However, the third problem, namely noun phrase analysis, has not yet been solved. One of the most typical and important noun phrases in the Japa...

Although previous studies of noun-noun compounding have shown that past experience of a modifier influences the comprehension of combinations involving that modifier (Gagné & Shoben, 1997; Storms & Wisniewski, in press), no similar head noun influence has been found. In this paper we describe an experiment that investigates the influence exerted independently by head nouns that are particularly...

How is the meaning of an adjectivenoun phrase related to the meanings of its adjective and noun constituents? Different types of adjective produce different relations between a combination and in its constituent adjectives and nouns. Current theories give separate mechanisms for each adjective type. This paper shows how a computational model originally developed to explain classification in nou...