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Wilss, Wolfram – Meta, 1979
Discusses the noun-plus-adjective construction in contemporary German and problems in translating this pattern into English. (AM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, English, German, Grammar
Mizuno, Mitsuharu – Kanagawa University Studies in Language, 1993
This paper seeks to determine the essential qualities of proper nouns and to determine the differences between proper and common nouns by reviewing research and writings on the subject. Both proper and common nouns are found to connote the attributes of objects as their content. Common nouns, however, are those that identify a certain substance on…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Classification, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Evens, Martha; And Others – 1986
Advanced learners of second languages and natural language processing systems both demand much more detailed lexical information than conventional dictionaries provide. Text composition, whether by humans or machines, requires a thorough understanding of relationships between words, such as selectional restrictions, case patterns, factives, and…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Computational Linguistics, Dictionaries, Difficulty Level