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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Dear Rafaelle,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> <span><p>The following book is an excellent resource on the types of constructions you are interested in.</p></span><span>Malchukov, Andrej L. 2000. Dependency reversal in noun-attribute constructions: towards a typology. (Lincom studies in Language Typology, 3). München: LINCOM EUROPA.</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Best,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Sergey Say<strong><br></strong></div><div><br></div>
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On Friday, May 31, 2024 at 10:39:32 AM GMT+2, Raffaele Simone via Lingtyp <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:
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<p class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Dear colleagues and friends,</span></p>
<p class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">in Italian and other Romance languages there is a binominal NP structure as in the following examples:</span></p>
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<p class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: sans-serif;">italian</span></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm;" start="1" type="1">
<li style="margin-left:0cm;" class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Ho speso
<u>la bellezza</u> di cento euro</span></li></ol>
<p style="text-indent:35.4pt;" class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">I have spent
<u>the beauty</u> of one hundred euros</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:35.4pt;" class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">“I spent a good one hundred euros”</span></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm;" start="2" type="1">
<li style="margin-left:0cm;" class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Ho pagato questa casa
<u>la miseria</u> di centomila euro</span></li></ol>
<p class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoListParagraph"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">I have paid this house
<u>the misery</u> of one hundred thousand euros. </span></p>
<p class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoListParagraph"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">“I paid a paltry one hundred thousand euros for this house”
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<ol style="margin-top:0cm;" start="3" type="1">
<li style="margin-left:0cm;" class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Ha sposato
<u>un tesoro</u> di ragazzo</span></li></ol>
<p class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoListParagraph"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">She has married
<u>a treasure</u> of boy</span></p>
<p class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoListParagraph"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">“She married a darling boy”</span></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm;" start="4" type="1">
<li style="margin-left:0cm;" class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Faccio
<u>uno schifo</u> di lavoro</span></li></ol>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;" class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">I do
<u>a crap</u> of job</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;" class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">“I have a crap job”</span></p>
<p class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> The NP is structured as follows:
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<p class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="text-indent:35.4pt;" class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">A specifier + N1, a sort of “Light Noun” indicating a positive or negative property (<i>bellezza</i>,
<i>tesoro</i>, <i>schifo</i> ecc.) of N2 + <i>di </i>+ N2, a noun representing the “semantic phrase head”, which the property indicated by N1 refers to.
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<p style="text-indent:35.4pt;" class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="text-indent:35.4pt;" class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">From the predicative point of view, the quality attributed to N2 is not encoded by an adjective or sim. but is transferred to N1.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:35.4pt;" class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Other constraints:
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<p style="text-indent:35.4pt;" class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">a. the list of the possible N1 is very limited;
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<p style="text-indent:35.4pt;" class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">b. some N1 (as
<i>bellezza</i> in 1, <i>miseria </i>in 2) don’t indicate a property but refer to an amount, so working as indefinite quantifiers.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:35.4pt;" class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="text-indent:35.4pt;" class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Could you indicate to me similar NP structures in other languages?</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:35.4pt;" class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Thanks.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:35.4pt;" class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="text-indent:35.4pt;" class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Raffaele (Simone)</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:35.4pt;" class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:35.4pt;" class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">PS For Light Words, See Simone, R. & F. Masini. 2014. “On Light Nouns”.
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">In Simone, R. & F. Masini (eds).
<i>Word Classes</i>. 51-74. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:35.4pt;" class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p>
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<p class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Emeritus Professor, Università Roma Tre</span></p>
<p class="ydpcd73e34eyiv7173616703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Hon C Lund University</span></p>
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