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TWO PROBLEMS IN THE DESCRIPTION OF ADJECTIVES
Author(s) -
Michaels David
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
language learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.882
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1467-9922
pISSN - 0023-8333
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-1770.1970.tb00047.x
Subject(s) - noun phrase , predicate (mathematical logic) , linguistics , noun , determiner phrase , head (geology) , endocentric and exocentric , nominalization , proper noun , natural language processing , computer science , feature (linguistics) , subject (documents) , artificial intelligence , syntax , psychology , philosophy , geomorphology , library science , programming language , geology
Certain facts concerning the sensitivity of predicate adjectives to the head noun of a subject noun phrase suggest (1) that selectional restrictions on adjectives involve the syntactic features of the head noun and not those of the whole noun phrase, and (2) that the identification of the feature specifications of the head noun is sometimes obscured by the syntactic configurations in which it occurs.