A two-rule analysis of measure noun phrases
- In this paper we present an analysis of English measure noun phrases. Measure noun phrases exhibit both distributional idiosyncrasy, in that they appear in positions normally filled by degree adverbs: "a ten inch long string"; and agreement discord: "ten inches is enough", "it is ten inch/*inches long". The analysis introduces one idiosyncratic construction, the Measure Phrase Rule, which links together syntax and inflectional morphology. Combined with existing rules, in particular the Noun-noun Compound Rule, the new rule accounts for the both the distributional and agreement idiosyncrasies. The rule has been implemented and tested in the ERG, a broad-coverage grammar of English. Our analysis supports the position that broad-coverage grammars will necessarily contain both highly schematic and highly idiosyncratic rules.
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| Author: | Dan FlickingerORCiDGND, Francis BondORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-709204 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2003.7 |
| ISSN: | 1535-1793 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications |
| Place of publication: | Stanford, CA |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2003/10/01 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2003 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Contributing Corporation: | International Conference on Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (10 : 2003 : East Lansing, Mich.) |
| Release Date: | 2024/08/29 |
| GND Keyword: | Nominalphrase; Quantifizierung <Linguistik> |
| Volume: | 10.2003 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Page Number: | 11 |
| First Page: | 111 |
| Last Page: | 121 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
| 4 Sprache / 42 Englisch, Altenglisch / 420 Englisch, Altenglisch | |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
