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| Title: | A categorial treatment of adverbial nouns |
| Author: | Neal Whitman |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Homepage: | http://home.insight.rr.com/nwhitman |
| Institution: | 3F Limited |
| Linguistic Field: | Syntax |
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| Abstract: | A select set of English nouns can head adverbial NPs - NPs that can act as adverbs without being preceded by a preposition. These 'adverbial nouns' also can be modified by prepositionless adverbial non-wh relative clauses. An analysis is presented in a categorial grammar framework, employing a conjunctive type structure to describe the behavior of adverbial nouns. It is suggested that adverbial nouns select non-wh adverbial relative clauses as complements; lexical rules are written to allow such selection. Finally, some remaining issues are surveyed concerning adverbial nouns in particular and conjunctive categories in general. |
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This article appears in Journal of Linguistics Vol. 38, Issue 3, which you can read on Cambridge's site . |
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