Classifying modifiers in common names
- Complex common names such as Indian elephant or green tea denote a certain type of entity, viz. kinds. Moreover, those kinds are always subkinds of the kind denoted by their head noun. Establishing such subkinds is essentially the task of classifying modifiers that are a defining trait of endocentrically structured complex common names. Examining complex common names of different lexico-syntactic types(NN compounds, N+N syntagmas, NP/PP syntagmas, A+N syntagmas) and from different languages (particularly English, German and French) it can be shown that complex common names are subject to language- independent formal and semantic constraints. In particular, complex common names qualify as name-like expressions in that they tend to be deficient in terms of formal complexity and semantic compositionality.
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| Author: | Lutz Gunkel, Gisela ZifonunGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-47013 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3366/E1750124509000415 |
| ISSN: | 1750-1245 |
| Parent Title (English): | Word Structure |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Place of publication: | Edinburgh |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2009 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2016/03/09 |
| Publicationstate: | Postprint |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| GND Keyword: | Appellativum; Deutsch; Englisch; Französisch; Komposition; Kontrastive Morphologie; Wortbildung |
| Volume: | 2 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| First Page: | 205 |
| Last Page: | 218 |
| Note: | The article has been accepted for publication by Edinburgh University Press in the journal "Word structure. Volume 2, Issue 2, Page 205-218. ISSN 1750-1245, Available Online Oct 2009". DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/E1750124509000415 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 410 Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| BDSL-Classification: | Grammatik |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Grammatikforschung |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 Deutschland |