As a noun, principal generally means main or head person, such as the principal of a school. (Some people remember this meaning using the memory device, “the principal is our pal.”) As a noun, it can also mean a capital sum of money; a perpetrator or aider and abettor to a crime; or one who employs another (an agent) to act for him. When used as an adjective, principal means “main” or “primary,...

The paper looks at size nouns of the type grămadă ‘heap / pile’ in Romanian and classifies them into two categories: with a comparative interpretation (Doetjes Rooryck 2003) quantifying (Brems 2007; 2010), latter reading being sometimes contextually extended to third interpretation, negative evaluation 2010). major types readings that may have are read off head-complement syntactic structure, t...

In this paper we present a novel framework for resolving bridging anaphora. The new framework is based on the core set of relations that have been used to describe an entirely different linguistic process, the process of generating a compound noun from two different nouns. We argue that the linguistic processes of compound noun generation and the use of NP anaphora are alike hence have to use t...

This paper aims to find out the qualia roles involved in metaphorical noun-noun compounds in Mandarin Chinese. Metaphor concerns the resemblance between things. From the perspective of qualia structure proposed by Generative Lexicon, the resemblance in metaphorical compounds can be interpreted in the way that a compound and its metaphorical component share the same quale role. A preliminary inv...

This chapter describes the Ezafe construction in Zazaki which all nominal and non-nominal modifiers, including possessors, appear postnominal position are linked to their head noun with marker. this language displays distinguishing properties such that it not only inflects for phi-features definiteness of noun, but also reflects case whole phrase receives clause. The Direct Oblique distinctions...

Although various theories of conceptual combination have been proposed in the past, these models have addressed interpretation issues rather than addressing the circumstances in which combinations are used. As a result, existing theories make no explicit predictions about what kind of nouns will be used more often in combination and why this might be the case. In this study we address the issue...

The present study focuses on the lexical meanings of prepositions rather than on the thematic meanings because it is intended for use in an English-Bengali machine translation (MT) system, where the meaning of a lexical unit must be preserved in the target language, even though it may take a different syntactic form in the source and target languages. Bengali is the fifth language in the world ...

A review of the literature on children's use of relative clause constructions reveals many contradictory findings. The suggestion is that some studies fail to take into account the two factors of embeddedness (role of complex noun phrase within the sentence) and focus (role of head noun in the relative clause). The experiment reported here attempted to reconcile the disparate findings and exten...

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...