[Corpora-List] NP-head complements vs. NP-head modifiers

[Silke Scheible]

Hi,

Does anyone know of any studies that try to automatically distinguish 
between NP-head complements and NP-head modifiers? By this I mean the 
difference between:

[PRE-HEAD]
i. a *linguistics* student     (complement)
ii. a *first-year* student     (modifier)

[POST-HEAD]
i. a report *on the crash*     (complement)
ii. a report *in the paper*    (modifier)

where cases [i.] are complements of the NP head, while cases [ii.] are 
modifiers. (Examples taken from Huddleston and Pullum (2002: 439).)

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Silke



-- 
Silke Scheible
PhD student
Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS)
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh