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Query: Nominal compounds
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| Author: | Laurie Bauer | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
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Syntax
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It is well-known (and frequently mentioned in books on word-formation)
that nominal compounds are ambiguous (perhaps vague, depending on definitions of the terms): A _London bus_, for example, may be going to, coming from or operating within London. But does anyone have an example, from poetry or advertising, of such ambiguity being exploited in such a way that more than one meaning is relevant? The ambiguity *is* sometimes exploited in jokes, where a reanalysis is forced: -It's the royal garden party on Wednesday. -Oh, have you been invited? -No, but my garden has. Are there also more serious instances of the ambiguity being used? Laurie.BAUER@vuw.ac.nz Department of Linguistics, Victoria University, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand Ph: +64 4 472 1000 x 8800 Fax: +64 4 495 5057 Our department has started teaching a new course called 'Fundamentals of Grammar'. The idea is to present basic grammatical concepts and terminology to first-year undergraduates who plan to major in a foreign language. The problem is finding an adequate textbook. All of the descriptively-oriented introductions to grammar that we have found focus exclusively on ENGLISH. But we want to expose the students to aspects of grammar that are found in other languages that they might set out to study, that is, such phenomena as pronominal clitics, varieties of agreement rules, rich case systems, and so on. Can anybody recommend a textbook? Thanks; I'll summarize. Fritz Newmeyer fjn@u.washington.edu Dear all, to finish university I plan to write my MA thesis about the modelling of the japanese verb in unification based formalisms like JPSG or HPSG. I am thus interested in literature and systems related to the morphology, syntax and semantics of the japanese verb. Could anybody help me with some indications on articles, papers and existing systems concerned with this topic? For the moment I found the following: Young-mee Yu Cho, Peter Sells (to appear in 'Journal of East Asian Linguistics'): 'A Lexical Account of Inflectional Suffixes in Korean' Takao Gunji (1987): 'Japanese Phrase Structure Grammar' Reidel, Dordrecht. Toru Hisamitsu, Yoshihiko Nitta (COLING 94): 'An Efficient Treatment of Japanese Verb Inflection for Morphological Analysis' Masayo Iida, Christopher D. Manning, Patrick O'Neill, Ivan A. Sag (Presented at the LSA 1994 Annual Meeting): 'The Lexical Integrity of Japanese Causatives' Peter Sells (to appear in 'Linguistic Inquiry'): 'Korean and Japanese Morphology from a Lexical Perspective' Mariko Udo (1982): 'Syntax and Morphology of the Japanese Verb: A Phrase Structural Approach' unpublished M.A. Thesis, University College London. Thank You very much in advance, Dietrich Bollmann (dietb@cs.tu-berlin.de) |
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| LL Issue: | 8.564 | |
| Date posted: | 22-Apr-1997 | |
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