Titlebook: Nouns and the Morphosyntax / Semantics Interface; Laure Gardelle,Elise Mignot,Julie Neveux Book 2024 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The

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, ,: A Constructional Analysis of the Syntax/Semantics Interface for the Classification of N1 as “Coonstructions, such as . or .. The few existing studies diverge in their conclusions, from rejecting collective status for all metaphorical uses to rejecting only cases of obligatory plural agreement of the verb; one even considers all these uses collective. The present study, taking a constructionis

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Polar Nouns and Polar Concealed Questionsestions has concentrated on NPs corresponding to identity questions (e.g., . ≈ ‘Kim knows what the price is’). This chapter focuses on NPs whose reading is similar to that of a polar interrogative in certain interrogative contexts, e.g., . ≈ ‘Whether or not they have survived is uncertain’. The cont

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When a Construction Impacts Lexical Choices: The Case of Nouns in Concealed Exclamationsditions which must be met by the NPs to be embedded in exclamative predicates impact the choice of nouns..These constructions express surprise at a high degree yet are not explicitly scalar. The scalar interpretation is conveyed by the construction as a whole: the embedded NP . is a semantic equival

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Influence of the Head Noun and Integration of the Dependent in Near-Compound Nominals Such as t focuses on the notion of ‘head’ noun, in relation to the internal dependent and to the whole nominal: the noun is the semantic head, and its lexical features select a metaphorical meaning of the adjective. Being head of the nominal, it also determines the procedural meaning of the whole constituen

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The Semantics of English Nominalizations: How Much Is Usage?nalization can be considered a matter of linguistics, as opposed to a matter of lexical usage. Even if the variation in the meanings of nominalizations is taken to be accounted for in terms of metonymy, as has been suggested by some researchers within cognitive linguistics, there is still a great de

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From Productive -, Word-Formation to Creative Suffix -,: The Case of l behaviors usually attributed to -. nouns in the literature. Typical X-ness nouns tend to signal cognitive commitment of the speaker/experiencer whose specific viewpoint and perception of a high degree of X motivates such concretizing nominalization. A typical construction of -. noun phrases has .

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Laure Gardellesequences of events. Observed regularities might support generalisations based on induction by simple enumeration, but this gives a precarious basis for predictions as to future sequences. A causal account claims to be an explanation; though an explanation is not only a prediction, it looks to predi

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