Herds of Wildebeest, Flasks of Vodka, Heaps of Trouble: An Embodied Construction Grammar Approach to English Measure Phrases | Zendy

Ellen Dodge | Zendy; Abby Wright | Zendy

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Herds of Wildebeest, Flasks of Vodka, Heaps of Trouble: An Embodied Construction Grammar Approach to English Measure Phrases

Author(s) -

Ellen Dodge,

Abby Wright

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

proceedings of the annual meeting of the berkeley linguistics society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2377-1666

pISSN - 0363-2946

DOI - 10.3765/bls.v28i1.3824

Subject(s) - noun phrase , linguistics , measure (data warehouse) , embodied cognition , grammar , noun , phrase , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , database

In this paper we examine English Measure Phrases (EMPs), for example, herd of zebras, cup of coffee, square of cloth , and miles of beach . Although EMPs internally resemble other phrases of the same form (a noun followed by of followed by a noun phrase), they interact with other elements in the clause in unique ways. On the basis of the phenomena studied in this paper, it will be necessary to distinguish EMPs from other N-of-NP phrases.

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