This paper argues that Korean lacks a distinct, open category of Adjective; what have been traditionally analyzed as adjectives are a kind of stative verbs. I propose that apparent noun-modifying adjectives in Korean are predicates inside relative clauses. The proposed analysis makes several predictions about the syntax and semantics of noun modifiers in Korean. In particular, it predicts that ...

In linguistics, there are various approaches to the selection of sentence elements: members, word classes, theme and rheme, etc. One types division can be syntax analysis, namely, allocation differential syntactic-semantic features elementary syntactic units in structure sentences. It is known that all existing practical theoretical grammars analysis by dividing involved device into primary sec...

This article presents novel data on the yet unnoticed phenomenon of article-drop in variety Livinallongo/Fodom (Ladin). The fundamental aim is to provide a morphosyntactic analysis capturing following: a) omission definite only possible (spatial) PPs and with specific set data; b) noun can be interpreted as well weak definite; c) interacts structural properties nominal complement like Number fe...

Many concepts have stereotypes. This leaves open the question of whether concepts are stereotypes. It has been argued elsewhere that theories that identify concepts with their stereotypes or with stereotypical properties of their instances (e.g., Rosch, E. (1978). Principles of categorization. In E. Rosch & B. B. Lloyd (Ed.), Cognition and Categorization. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associa...

• Chinese modifier-noun idioms are processed as Multi-Constituent Units. MCUs represented lexically single units. Parafoveal processing operates over the whole MCU. likely to be and Units (MCUs, a multi-word unit with lexical representation, see Zang, 2019). 1-character verb 2-character noun structure foveally, but not parafoveally, (Yu et al., 2016), probably because only loosely constrains id...

Two subject-verb agreement error elicitation studies tested the hierarchical feature-passing account of agreement computation in production and three timing-based alternatives: linear distance to the head noun, semantic integration, and a combined effect of both (a scope of planning account). In Experiment 1, participants completed subject noun phrase (NP) stimuli consisting of a head NP follow...

This chapter describes nominal constructions in the Central variety of Taleshi (Northwestern Iranian). In Taleshi, noun phrases and majority adpositional are head-final. Some modifiers as well complement postpositions linked to head phrase by a linking element––known Reverse Ezafe (Stilo 2004). this chapter, we show that appearing with possessors adpositions is different from attributive adject...

To search a large dictionary for a collocation expressing a desired meaning, the human reader needs some kind of hierarchical structure that would facilitate such search. In this paper, fragments of semantic classification of modifiers are elaborated based on several highly modifier-productive nouns, namely, common nouns person, action, look, corporation, and price, as well the terms coating, m...

Analysis of a corpus of queries to a statistical database has shown considerable variation in the location and order of modifiers in complex noun phrases. Nevertheless, restrictions can be defined on nominal modification because of certain correspondences between nominal modifiers and the role they fulfill in a statistical database, notably that the names of database tables and columns, and val...

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...