Two Problems in the Description of Adjectives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3202065 |
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| Authors | David Michaels (0000-0001-8558-7733, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-101 |
| Publication date | 1970-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language Learning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8333 • E-ISSN: 1467-9922 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-1770.1970.tb00047.x |
| OpenAlex | W2057743398 |
| Language | EN |
Certain facts concerning the sensitivity of predicate adjectives to the head noun of a subject noun phrase suggest (1) that selectional restrictions on adjectives involve the syntactic features of the head noun and not those of the whole noun phrase, and (2) that the identification of the feature specifications of the head noun is sometimes obscured by the syntactic configurations in which it occurs
Determiner phrase · Endocentric and exocentric · Feature (linguistics) · Head (geology) · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Nominalization · Noun · Noun phrase · Predicate (mathematical logic) · Proper noun · Subject (documents) · Syntax · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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