Sentence examples for complex noun from inspiring English sources

Nicolas shows that these construals can be accounted for by Gillon's (1996) rule for the interpretation of complex noun phrases containing a prepositional phrase.

Reference to the ranks presented on Table 1 indicates that these undergraduates had predictable difficulties with nouns and associated technicality, compounded by 'stacking' words into complex noun phrases.

So [gold] = a∨b = 1, [is in the safe] = a, [is not in the safe] = −a = b.[11] The denotation of complex noun phrases is also built through Boolean intersection: [M that P] = [M] ∧ [P].

Animals like bonobos may have a harder time than humans in processing complex noun phrases like "water and doggie," linguist Robert Truswell of the University of Edinburgh reported in New Orleans, Louisiana, this week at the Evolution of Language conference.

First, corpus data are presented to show that complex noun phrase formation is a ubiquitous feature of engineering text, and that these phrases (or collocations) are highly discipline-specific in a way that individual words are not.

Such complex noun groups could be unpacked as (Alguien) afirmó que el nacionalismo y la sociedad vascos son sumamente tradicionalistas ((Somebody) stated that basque nacionalism and society are extremely tradicionalist).

Czech verb conjugation is less complex than noun and adjective declension because it codes for fewer categories.

For example, Ono et al. (2001) [15] attempt to handle the nominalizations interaction, association, and binding, and the relational noun complex (e.g. Poll and Pob3 may form a complex).

Moreover, Ortega (1999) reported that pre-task planning ameliorated the complex use of noun modifiers but it did not improve accuracy in the use of articles in Spanish.

However, when connecting this sort of prefix to a word like a proper noun, a complex phrase, or a word that would look awkward or cumbersome without some sort of separating mark, it's acceptable to use an en dash.

In another, and more interesting way, it reflected his view that abstract compound nouns and complex ideas evoke specific past experiences.