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Nouns, Names, and Abstract Kinds
This chapter attempts to derive a host of grammatical properties of nouns and names from a single hypothesis about the essence of nominality: that...
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The long and the short of it: Russian predicate adjectives with zero copula
The present article presents an empirical investigation of the choice between so-called long (e.g., prostoj ‘simple’) and short (e.g., prost ...
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Perspectival domains in nouns and clauses
Using data from Nyala East (Luhia, Bantu), I argue that both clauses and nouns are “perspectival domains.” This study primarily focuses on novel...
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Why the Morphosyntax/Semantics Interface Matters for Nouns
Although the category of nouns, or “substantives” (for a long time, the word “noun” was used for a broader category that included more subparts of...
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Polar Nouns and Polar Concealed Questions
This chapter introduces a hitherto unnoticed type of concealed questions, namely, polar concealed question readings. Previous research on Concealed...
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Stability and attrition in American Norwegian nominals: a view from predicate nouns
This study investigates the extent to which speakers of American Norwegian (AmNo), a heritage language spoken in the United States and Canada, use...
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The Interaction of Morphosyntax and Semantics in Romance Object Mass Nouns
Object mass nouns (OMNs) such as furniture or clothing are syntactically mass nouns, however, on a semantic level, they refer to individual entities....
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Predicate doubling in Spanish: On how discourse may mimic syntactic movement
Predicate doubling in Spanish is usually taken to involve multiple copy spell-out. This approach is mainly motivated by the fact that two instances...
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God, It’s Amazing the Junk People Will Buy! When a Construction Impacts Lexical Choices: The Case of Nouns in Concealed Exclamations
This chapter focuses on nouns occurring in NPs embedded in three exclamative constructions (It’s amazing the car he bought, You would not believe the...
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Post-Predicate Constituents in Kurdish
This chapter investigates the areal distribution of post-predicate constituents across Kurdish, primarily based on the MDKD. Although direct objects...
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Bare nouns, incorporation, and event kinds in Mandarin Chinese
This article motivates and develops a compositional account for bare noun incorporation (BNI) constructions in Mandarin Chinese. Mandarin BNI...
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Nouns and Iconicity of Distance: When Syntactic Proximity to the Noun Mirrors Semantic Closeness
This contribution examines semantico-cognitive aspects of the spatio-temporal distance between the noun and other constituents, both inside and...
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Plural Nouns in EJLU
This chapter consists of four sections. Focusing on absolute frequency.
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Type-shifting in headless relative clauses
Research on the (in)definiteness of bare nouns has developed various proposals regarding which type-shifters exist in human language and which...
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Linguistic resources for paraphrase generation in portuguese: a lexicon-grammar approach
This paper presents a new linguistic resource for the generation of paraphrases in Portuguese, based on the lexicon-grammar framework. The resource...
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Syntax and semantics of NPs in Chinese possessive topic constructions
A systematic evaluation of syntactic behavior of nouns that take as their possessor the topic of the possessive topic constructions in Mandarin...
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The Slavic suffix -in/-yn as partition shifter
This paper investigates lexical mass-to-count and count-to-mass operators in Slavic languages, primarily Russian and Ukrainian, by exploring the...
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The Noun Class in Japanese: Morphosyntactic and Semantic Properties
In Japanese linguistics, the old class of nouns has attracted much less interest than the other major lexical categories, the adjectives and the...
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Anaphoric definiteness marking in Korean: focusing on subject definites
This article takes a close look at subject anaphoric definites in Korean, with the goal of identifying (i) the distribution of anaphoric bare nouns...
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Common nouns as modally non-rigid restricted variables
I argue that common nouns should be analyzed as variables, rather than as predicates which take variables as arguments. This necessitates several...