[Corpora-List] NP-head complements vs. NP-head modifiers

From: Silke Scheible (S.Scheible@sms.ed.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Nov 21 2006 - 20:07:49 MET

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    Hi,

    Does anyone know of any studies that try to automatically distinguish
    between NP-head complements and NP-head modifiers? By this I mean the
    difference between:

    [PRE-HEAD]
    i. a *linguistics* student (complement)
    ii. a *first-year* student (modifier)

    [POST-HEAD]
    i. a report *on the crash* (complement)
    ii. a report *in the paper* (modifier)

    where cases [i.] are complements of the NP head, while cases [ii.] are
    modifiers. (Examples taken from Huddleston and Pullum (2002: 439).)

    Any help would be much appreciated!

    Thanks,
    Silke 

    -- 
Silke Scheible
PhD student
Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS)
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh

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