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  1. Noun Phrase Complementation in Persian

    Soheili-Isfahani, AbulghasemUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T19:12:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7709194.pdf: 9261185 bytes, checksum: 29ad9a7191ff80e872faadf147025044 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976

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  2. A Nama grammar : the noun-phrase

    Haacke, Wilfrid H GAfrican Languages and Literatures1976

    … one aspect has been selected for discussion: the NOUN-PHRASE. This topic has been chosen as nominalization is one of the most important features of Nama grammar. Nominalization is moreover that aspect of Nama syntax which is the most mispresented. This dissertation should not be seen as a …

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  3. The English noun phrase in its sentential aspect

    Abney, Steven PMassachusetts Institute of Technology1987

    Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1987.

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  4. Topicalisation of the noun phrase in colloquial Cairene Arabic

    Kamel, Salwa.A.University of Leeds1982

    … which is here called the "topicalisation" of the Noun Phrase in Colloquial Cairene Arabic (CCA). The Approach is outlined by the Extended Standard Theory TG model, but relevant Functionalist views have been considered to account for Topic-comment alignment in the dialect. Part I, therefore, lays …

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  5. Greek noun phrase structure: a study in syntactic evolution

    Manōlessou, IōUniversity of Cambridge2000

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  6. The Significance of Noun Phrase Word Order Variation in Kivunjo

    Kyara, Elizabeth AloisThe Open University of Tanzania2010

    … a description of the word order variation in the noun phrases of Kivunjo, a Bantu language classified under group E62b, according to Guthrie (1948). The study describes five aspects of the noun phrase which are: constituents that modify the noun, order of the constituents in the phrase structure …

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  7. The evolution of the genitive noun phrase in early Middle English

    Myers, Sara MaeUniversity of Glasgow2009

    This paper looks at the evolution of the genitive noun phrase in early Middle English texts. Through an examination of six texts, representing three different regions and their separate textual traditions, I explore the development of genitive noun phrases, both in form and function. Each text is …

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  8. Interactions Between Aspects of Noun Phrase Structure and Restrictions on Question Formation in Mandarin Chinese

    Chen, Ching-Hsiang LeeUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

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  9. Verb Agreement in Kannada: A Constraint Based Account

    Rau, NaliniUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2015

    … A finite verb takes only that nominative noun phrase as its complement which bears information compatible to the index specified. Defective verbs are argued to be underspecified verbs which are less constrained in the kind of nominative noun phrase they can combine with. The dissertation …

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  10. Licensing without Case

    Levin, Theodore FrankMassachusetts Institute of Technology2015

    … Case is a conjectured syntactic property of noun phrases that accounts for aspects of their distribution and form that do not otherwise follow from their PF and LF content (Chomsky 1981, 1986; Chomsky & Lasnik 1995; Lasnik 2008). Traditionally, Case Theory consists of two core components: (i) …

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  11. Nulla umquam obmutescet vetustas: Hyperbaton in Cicero's oratory

    Vendel, AgnesUniversity of Cambridge2023

    … treats the topic of hyperbaton, or discontinuous noun phrases, and its use in Cicero’s oratory. It considers the totality of all instances of this linguistic phenomenon – over 2,200 cases – in twenty-one of the orator’s speeches, and thus constitutes the first full-scale, systematic study on the …

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  12. Planning Ahead: How Recent Experience With Structures and Words Changes the Scope of Linguistic Planning

    Konopka, Agnieszka E.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2015

    … related or unrelated objects in the same complex noun phrase (Experiments 1, 3, and 4) or in separate phrases (Experiment 2). To manipulate familiarity with sentence structure, target displays were preceded by prime displays that elicited the same or different sentence structures. To manipulate …

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  13. An Investigation of the Effects of Otitis Media on Academic Aptitude, Social Status and Selected Variables in Elementary School-Age Children

    Stagliano, Michael AnthonyUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    … status. The results showed that the variables of noun phrase, phonology, and verb phrase respectively, contributed most to differentiating the two groups of children. Recommendations for improving present and future research were made on the basis of the data gathered in this study.

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  14. A Lexical Functional Grammar Account of Spanish Weak Dative Pronominals

    Carretero García, PalomaUniversity of Essex2017

    … implications. The presence of the dative pronoun is becoming grammaticalised and provides an entailment of affectedness. In instances of clitic doubling where we have both the pronoun and a noun phrase, we are treating the pronoun as the element that the predicate subcategorises for and the …

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  15. Η ΕΝΝΟΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΥΠΟΚΕΙΜΕΝΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΥ ΘΕΜΑΤΟΣ. ΘΕΩΡΗΤΙΚΗ ΕΡΕΥΝΑ ΚΑΙ ΠΕΙΡΑΜΑΤΙΚΗ ΕΞΕΤΑΣΗ ΣΤΑ ΓΑΛΛΙΚΑ

    Αθανασιάδου-Γεροθανάση, ΑγγελικήΑριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης (ΑΠΘ)1987

    … NATION, BUT RATHER A CLUSTER OF PROPERTIES; THE NOUN PHRASE TYPE WITH THE MOST SUCH PROPERTIES MAY BE CALLED A SUBJECT. THE NOTION OF THEME IS ALSO A MATTER OF DEGREE OF INFORMATION, AND NOT THE DISTINCTION OF A THEME AND A COMMENT.

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  16. Number matters: enhancing nominal number to facilitate subject-verb agreement

    Tang, WentingUniversity of Kansas2020

    … accessibility of number features in the subject noun phrase, given that in English S-V agreement the verbal form is dependent on the number of the sentence subject. It has been argued that second language (L2) learners are insensitive to agreement violations online when their native language (L1) …

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  17. The ezafat suffix: The syntax-semantics interface

    Manati, Ahmed Saeed2014

    <p>Any discussion of Dari noun phrases pays special attention to Ezafat and the way it behaves. Ezafat is of great importance to understanding the underlying structure of a Dari noun phrase. Much of this thesis uses the methodologies and tools provided by generative syntax to determine the status …

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  18. The Influence of Discourse Representations on Young Children's Pronoun Interpretation

    Song, Hyun-JooUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2015

    … whether preschoolers' comprehension of pronouns was affected by the discourse prominence of the possible antecedents. In each experiment, children listened to short stories. The final (test) sentence of each story differed in whether it continued the grammatical subject and/or …

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  19. Grounding natural language phrases in images and video

    Plummer, Bryan A.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2018

    … the ground truth annotations of the location of noun phrase chunks in image captions. I begin by introducing a constituent task termed phrase localization, where the goal is to localize an entity known to exist in an image when provided with a natural language query. To address this task, I …

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  20. Understanding the role of referential processing in sentence complexity

    Warren, Tessa Cartwright, 1974-Massachusetts Institute of Technology2001

    … referential processing load imposed by relating noun phrase (NP) anaphors to their antecedents and to discover the ramifications of increased referential processing load on behavioral measures of language comprehension. Four questionnaire experiments tested the intuitive complexity of doubly …

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