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<P ALIGN="center"><CENTER><H1> English Lexical Paradigms</H1>
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<H2>Nouns</H2>
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Nouns are constructed by the function <CODE>mkN</CODE>, which takes a varying
number of arguments.
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<PRE>
mkN : overload {
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<P>
Worst case: give all four forms.
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<PRE>
mkN : (man,men,man's,men's : Str) -&gt; N ;
mkN : (man,men,man's,men's : Str) -&gt; N ;
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@@ -134,14 +142,14 @@ The regular function captures the variants for nouns ending with
<I>fly - flies</I> (but <I>toy - toys</I>),
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<PRE>
regN : Str -&gt; N ;
mkN : (flash : Str) -&gt; N ;
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In practice the worst case is just: give singular and plural nominative.
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<PRE>
mk2N : (man,men : Str) -&gt; N ;
mkN : (man,men : Str) -&gt; N ;
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function:
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genderN : Gender -&gt; N -&gt; N ;
mkN : Gender -&gt; N -&gt; N ;
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such as <I>baby boom</I>, <I>chief executive officer</I>.
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compoundN : Str -&gt; N -&gt; N ;
mkN : Str -&gt; N -&gt; N
} ;
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