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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=816283810-03062005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Hi Denis,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=816283810-03062005><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN class=579404910-03062005>I'm not an expert in
this. <SPAN class=769555110-03062005>But j</SPAN></SPAN>ust come up in my
mind a simple and quick method to obtain a crude list of the nominal
compounds. <SPAN class=769555110-03062005>Not s</SPAN>ure how helpful
it <SPAN class=769555110-03062005>will be</SPAN> to you. You may
access Mark Davis website </FONT></FONT></FONT><A
href="BLOCKED::BLOCKED::http://view.byu.edu/"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>http://view.byu.edu/</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2> and perform a search for 'plural noun + singular noun' using the
tag options provided. You may set the no. of hits as many as you
like. The downside is that you have to do some manual screening
work afterwards in order to obtain what you want.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=816283810-03062005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Peter</FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> owner-corpora@lists.uib.no
[mailto:owner-corpora@lists.uib.no] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Denis
Jamet<BR><B>Sent:</B> 03 June,2005 6:01 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
corpora@hit.uib.no<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Corpora-List] looking for a corpus of
nominal compounds<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080>Dear linguists,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia><FONT color=#000080>I am currently looking for a corpus
of nominal compounds (N-N) in which the first noun (the internal noun) is
pluralized, such as job<U><STRONG>s</STRONG></U> growth, visual
effect<STRONG><U>s</U></STRONG> supervisor, <SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">the
new government's nationaliti<B><U>es</U></B> policy,
etc.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia><FONT color=#000080><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia><FONT color=#000080><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Any
reference will be greatly appreciated.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia><FONT color=#000080><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia><FONT color=#000080><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Thank
you.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia><FONT color=#000080><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia><FONT color=#000080><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Best
regards,</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia><FONT color=#000080><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia><FONT color=#000080><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Denis
Jamet</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia
color=#000080><BR>************************************************************************************<BR> <BR>Denis
Jamet<BR>Maître de Conférences en Linguistique anglaise - Chargé de mission à la
Maison des Langues<BR>Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3<BR>Faculté des Langues -
Département d'anglais<BR>6, cours Albert Thomas, 69008 Lyon, FRANCE<BR><A
href="http://www.univ-lyon3.fr/facdeslangues">www.univ-lyon3.fr/facdeslangues</A><BR> <BR>"Les
Ruets"<BR>42370 Renaison<BR> <BR>Tel. (mobile) : 06-17-62-33-70<BR>Tel.
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