A two-rule analysis of measure noun phrases

• Main Authors: Flickinger, Dan., Bond, Francis.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Comparative grammar
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92172; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6436
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper we present an analysis of English measure noun phrases. Measure noun phrases exhibit both distributional idiosyncrasy, in that they appear in positions normally lled by degree adverbs: a ten inch long string;...