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A Study on the Semantic Interpretation of Chinese Noun Compounds
Noun compound interpretation is determined by implicit semantic relations encoded by constituent nouns. In this chapter, we will present preliminary...
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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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Binomial adjective doublets in Japanese: A Relational Morphology account
Adjectives whose stems consist of two elements (or binomial adjectives) are becoming increasingly productive in colloquial Japanese. Unlike the stems...
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Resumptive Post-Modification as a Cohesive Feature of Signalling Nouns
This chapter describes one of the ways in which signalling nouns (SNs), abstract nouns such as problem, process, and reason, may function in context...
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Concord in Russian close appositional constructions: a quantitative study
The paper discusses case concord in Russian appositional constructions, which manifests itself in optional case concord of the proper name ( v rek-e LOC ...
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Of Birds of Prey and Men of Honour: Head-Classifier Constructions in English
A considerable amount of research has been devoted to binominal constructions, including pseudo-partitives, evaluative binominal constructions, and...
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German measurement structures: case-marking and non-conservativity
This paper addresses the syntactic and semantic analysis of nominal measurement structures like two liters of black coffee in German. German allows...
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Conversion Versus Coercion in the Nominal Domain: Two Phenomena at the Lexis-Grammar Interface
This chapter focuses on the dynamic interaction of lexical items with their syntactic and discourse environment in Modern French. If one adopts a...
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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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Linking Comprehension and Production: Frequency Distribution of Chinese Relative Clauses in the Sinica Treebank
This chapter presents the distribution of Chinese relative clauses in the Sinica Treebank (Chen et al., Sinica corpus: Design methodology for...
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Representing multiply de re epistemic modal statements
I review Ninan’s Hundred Tickets case pertaining to quantification into epistemic modal contexts, and his counterpart theoretic way to address it...
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The complex lives of proper names
I argue that predicativism, the view that proper names are predicates, is a viable theory of the semantics of proper names given a certain hypothesis...
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Psycholinguistic evidence for restricted quantification
Quantificational determiners are often said to be devices for expressing relations. For example, the meaning of every is standardly described as the...
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Naming and Describing: People, Places and Things in Poems
In addition to simply referring to people, creatures and things, the noun phraseNoun phrase also has the textual power to create and characterise...
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Affix polyfunctionality in French deverbal nominalizations
This article investigates the semantic polyfunctionality of affixes, i.e. their ability to serve a variety of distinct semantic functions. Based on...
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Domain restriction: the problem of the variable location revisited
Two theories of implicit domain restriction have gained considerable prominence over the last two decades. According to von Fintel (Restrictions on...
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When MIPVU goes to no man’s land: a new language resource for hybrid, morpheme-based metaphor identification in Hungarian
The aim of the article is to present a new language resource for metaphor analysis in corpora that is (i) a MIPVU-inspired, morpheme-based process...
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A new methodology for automatic creation of concept maps of Turkish texts
Concept maps are two-dimensional visual tools that describe the relationships between concepts belonging to a particular subject. The manual creation...
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Language change and the Degree Semantics Parameter
Beck et al. (
2009 ) and much follow-up research (including Bochnak2015 ; Bowler2016 ; Deal and Hohaus2019 ) argue that languages systematically differ...
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“What Does Hyung Mean Please?”: Moments of Teaching and Learning About Korean (Im)politeness on an Online Streaming Platform of Korean TV Drama
In this paper we combine an interest in the pragmatics of fiction with interpersonal pragmaticsInterpersonal pragmatics by exploring how Korean...