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<P ALIGN="center"><CENTER><H1> The construction of nouns, noun phrases, and determiners</H1>
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<FONT SIZE="4">
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<I>Author: </I><BR>
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Last update: Tue Jan 31 18:15:45 2006
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Last update: Thu Feb 2 16:24:07 2006
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</FONT></CENTER>
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<P></P>
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</PRE>
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<P></P>
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<P>
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Quantifiers that have both forms can be used in both ways.
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</P>
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<PRE>
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SgQuant : Quant -> QuantSg ; -- this
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PlQuant : Quant -> QuantPl ; -- these
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</PRE>
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<P></P>
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<P>
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Pronouns have possessive forms. Genitives of other kinds
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of noun phrases are not given here, since they are not possible
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in e.g. Romance languages.
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<PRE>
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PossSg : Pron -> QuantSg ; -- my (house)
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PossPl : Pron -> QuantPl ; -- my (houses)
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PossPron : Pron -> Quant ; -- my (house)
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</PRE>
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<P></P>
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any particular word (Finnish; Swedish definites).
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<PRE>
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DefSg : QuantSg ; -- the (house)
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DefPl : QuantPl ; -- the (houses)
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IndefSg : QuantSg ; -- a (house)
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IndefPl : QuantPl ; -- (houses)
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DefArt : Quant ; -- the (house), the (houses)
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IndefArt : Quant ; -- a (house), (houses)
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</PRE>
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<P></P>
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in semantically odd expressions.
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<PRE>
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MassDet : QuantSg ; -- (beer)
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MassDet : QuantSg ; -- (beer)
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</PRE>
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<P></P>
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