gentile = ethnonymic (was: Heard on The Judges: crack)

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Apr 12, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky
> <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> for instance, what kind of proper noun is "Turkish" in "Turkish
>> invasion" 'invasion by Turkey' -- and "Turkish" in "Turkish invasion"
>> 'invasion by Turks'?
>
>
> Proper  *adjective*, of course.

ack, yes, of course.

> But other than that, this is part of
> why annotation of "geopolitical entities" is so hairy (see
> http://projects.ldc.upenn.edu/ace/annotation/).

indeed.

arnold

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