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

[Liliana Mamani Sanchez]

Hi, I'm working with some stuff of this kind, but still is in progress
and it's for portuguese language.
May be you have knowledge of this, however, I think good references
are the works of Paola Merlo:
"The Notion of Argument in PP Attachment"
" Automatic Distinction of Arguments and Modifiers: the Case of
Prepositional Phrases"

Best regards,

Liliana

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On 11/21/06, Silke Scheible <S.Scheible at sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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:
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> [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
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> Silke Scheible
> PhD student
> Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS)
> School of Informatics
> University of Edinburgh
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