A Lexical Licensing Analysis of the Adjectival Noun Construction

English Linguistics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 113-141

  Asaka, Toshihiko ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

adjectival noun construction; constructional idiom; lexical licensing; syntax semantics mismatch; tripartite parallel architecture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937382267     PISSN: 09183701     EISSN: 18843107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.9793/elsj1984.19.113     Document Type: Article

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