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Elliptic NP with questionable choice of promoted head in second to last adjective #3
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The English source has the NP 'white people like you', where 'people' is the head. Thus, 'vita' serves as the translation of 'white people'. The question for me is rather whether I should treat it as a NOUN rather than an ADJ, but I definitely want to analyse it as the head. |
Sorry, I hadn't consulted the English source language. I found it interesting that the ADJ/PRON Thanks for your clarification. I was actually looking to see whether Swedish had a construction where the pro-adjective 'sådana' took a modifier. In Finnish the pro-adjective 'sellainen' can take a modifier, but once again only in an elliptic context. In fact, the Finnish ADJ/PRON can also take a noun modifier 'olut' = 'beer'
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You can find several examples of the construction you're interested in by searching Swedish corpora via Korp. Here are just a few examples from Swedish novels:
But *ölsådana is not possible in Swedish nor any noun modifier |
It appears that the elliptic NP
ännu flera vita såna
has an erroneous promoted head.Wouldn't this be better as:
The next question would then be whether the UPOS value of
såna
should be retained as ADJ or PRON. Both occur in the LinES data.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: