I argue that the positioning of nominal modifiers with respect to the head of simple nouns cannot be adequately handled by an N-raising derivation. This is so because nouns fail to move as heads in the grammars of Hebrew and Arabic. The only heads that seem to be able to move are those...
With a name like “James,” there’s some disagreement about how to form the possessive. Most style guides recommend following the standard rule for singular nouns and adding an apostrophe and an “s”:James’s. Others argue that the possessive should be formed differently depending on whether...
As an example, I once had a client ask for a “homepage made of buttons, not just text.” He had no idea that, to a web designer, a button is the way a user submits a form online. To my client, the word button meant he could change the content over time as his business chang...
We argue that this “possessum pied-piping” is determined by the syntactic attachment height of the determiner within the noun phrase. In doing so, we provide a novel way of restricting the mechanism of distributed deletion based on configurational properties of the noun phrase, rather than ...
One of the interesting phenomena observed in contemporary English is the appearance of the noun forms of modal verbs. Examples include should, shoulds, oughts, and ought to's, which resemble must. Adopting a quantitative perspective based on contemporary English corpora, I argue that not all ...
used to say in an angry manner that although you are not happy about something that someone has said, you are not going to argue Oh OK, then. Have it your own way. have a way of doing somethingused to say that something often happens in a particular manner, especially when it is ...
A growing number of people feelthat animals should not be exploited by peopleandthat they should have the same rights as humans, while others arguethat humans must employ animals to satisfy their various needs, including uses for food and research. ...
But you could argue that the term Parka is so synonymous with a very specific type of jacket that it should be classed as proper. This is definitely one for the grammar experts to slog out between themselves!Getting PossessivePossessive nouns are usually followed by another naming word, ...
You can add a prefix (前缀) to a word (usually a noun, a verb or an adj- tive) to form a new word. e.g. the father and son were black, dressed in clothes that were just about as in- expensive as you can buy. (in-expensive) I did, and just as I was about to reboar...
One reason for this, as we argue in Section 1.3, may be the lack of control conditions that can block composition. For example, some studies try to prevent meaning composition by scrambling constituent order, or by replacing lexical items with pseudowords (Vandenberghe et al., Citation2002; ...