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A note on evaluative nouns and relativization1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Renaat Declerck
Affiliation:
K. U. Leuven Campus Kortrijk

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1. One of the most influential articles on noun phrases that have been published in the field of transformational grammar is no doubt Emmon Bach's celebrated paper ‘Nouns and noun phrases’, which he published in 1968. According to Bach there is both syntactic and semantic evidence that typically predicative nouns such as idiot, dope, angel, etc. are introduced into English noun phrases by way of underlying relative clauses.

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