Different perspectives on proper noun modifiers
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 158676498
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1017/S136067431900025X
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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A - SALC
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The purpose of this special issue is to bring together researchers from different areas of linguistics, working with different methods and within different theoretical frameworks, around a single phenomenon: namely, the use of proper nouns as prenominal modifiers, as in _the Watergate scandal_, _a London restaurant_, or _the Tom Stoppard play_. The six articles represent different fields (variationist linguistics, theoretical morphosyntax, diachronic linguistics, translation studies) and a range of methods (introspection, qualitative and quantitative corpus methods, experiments). The special issue showcases how this single phenomenon sparks different questions for different fields, leading to descriptions and analyses that are mutually enriching, but also sometimes contradicting. The contributors all have expertise working on noun phrase issues, and were through dialogue and peer review challenged to engage with a multiplicity of findings. Breban was one of two editors for the special issue. She initiated the project, and wrote the first drafts of the special issue proposal and of the introduction (pp 749-758). She is co-author of two articles in the special issue: "The impact of semantic relations on grammatical alternation: An experimental study of proper name modifiers and determiner genitives" (joint author with Julia Kolkmann and John Payne, pp 797-826) and "How do grammatical patterns emerge? The origins and development of the English proper noun modifier construction" (joint author with Hendrik De Smet, pp 879-899). The research for the latter article was conducted as part of the AHRC-funded Leadership Fellowship project ‘A methodology for qualitative analysis of historical corpus data: New insights about language change from a micro-analytical approach’ (07/2016- 08/2017, PI: Breban).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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