Deadjectival human nouns : conversion, nominal ellipsis, or mixed category?
Whereas deadjectival nouns referring to humans such as the Germans have been analyzed as the result of morphological conversion, the human construction the rich in English has been analyzed as a special case of nominal ellipsis. In this paper counterarguments are presented against the ellipsis an...
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Universidade do Porto
2013-01-01
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| Series: | Linguística : Revista de Estudos Linguísticos da Universidade do Porto |
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http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/11773.pdf
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