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Effects of parallel syntactic training in French plural spelling and German noun capitalization
French plural markers and German noun capitalization encode syntactic information. Both syntactic markers present the syntactic information needed...
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The morphologization of German noun-participle combinations. A diachronic case study
The present paper focuses on the recent history of German noun-participle combinations in which the noun saturates an argument of the base verb....
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Syntactic knowledge in a foreign language: examining cross-language transfer effects in L2 noun phrase comprehension
This study assessed the effect of adjectives and noun premodifiers on L2 noun phrase comprehension and error types among English Language Learners....
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Influence of the Head Noun and Integration of the Dependent in Near-Compound Nominals Such as High Executive
This chapter studies nominals such as high executive, in which a head noun denoting a person in their socio-professional capacity is modified by the...
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The whole picture: Disentangling locality, logophoricity and subjecthood in English picture noun anaphora
This article provides a solution to the long-standing puzzle of English anaphors within so-called picture noun phrases, which superficially exhibit...
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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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Proper Names and the “Noun”/“Name” Categories: Pseudo-Nouns, Real Names
This chapter summarises a number of arguments regarding the syntactic and semantic nouniness of proper names, which are not nouns (or noun phrases)...
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On the Functional Superstructure of the Noun Phrase in Indo-European
Proto-Indo-European most probably did not possess a determiner system. Determiner systems are interpreted as an overt exponent of a functional...
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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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Predictability in Latin Noun Inflection and the Role of Gender
We will now switch our focus from verbs to nouns. The structure of the first part of this chapter is analogous to the previous one. In Sect. 5.1, we...
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Number-based noun classification
Nilo-Saharan languages are well-known for their complicated system of nominal number marking, which features a variety of singulative and plural...
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Locality, focus and covert movement
This paper offers new evidence for covert focus movement in two areas of Chinese syntax, concerning A’-extraction and the distribution of anaphoric...
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The syntax of individuating and measuring pseudo-partitives in Alasha Mongolian
Pseudo-partitive constructions give rise to multiple interpretive ambiguities including a container interpretation (i.e. individuating) and a...
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Conversion in languages with different morphological structures: a semantic comparison of English and Czech
This article presents a comparative study of the semantics of conversion between verbs and nouns in two languages with different morphological...
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Do learners need semantics to spell syntactic markers? Plural spellings in real vs. pseudowords in a French L2 setting
Inaudible syntactic markers are especially difficult to spell. This paper examines how 455 fourth graders spell silent French plural markers in a...
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Portions and countability: A crosslinguistic investigation
We examine three constructions across several languages in which a mass noun is embedded in what appears to be a count environment, but the...
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BE Like Simile Usage Across Genres in the COCA
Despite its high frequency, simile usage is often overlooked in both linguistic research and English language teaching. In the current study, I...
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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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Semantic agreement in Russian: Gender, declension, and morphological ineffability
In this paper, I argue that declension classes are not primitives (see Aronoff
1994 ; Alexiadou2004 ; Kramer2015 ; i.a.), but are decomposed into...
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Tashlhiyt Berber DP Assembled
The DP hypothesis (cf. Abney. The English noun phrase in its sentential aspects. Ph.D. dissertation, MIT, 1987), whereby noun phrases (NPs) are...