In search of a systematic treatment of determinerless PPs

• Main Authors: Baldwin, Timothy, Beavers, John, Beek, Leonoor van der, Bond, Francis, Flickinger, Dan, Sag, Ivan A.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Computational linguistics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/93750; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6807
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper examines Determinerless PPs in English from a theoretical perspective. We classify attested P + N combinations across a number of analytic dimensions, arguing that the observed cases fall into at least three distinct classes. We then survey three different analytic methods that can predic...