Sentence examples for nominal compound from inspiring English sources

Loose-speak interpretation (Fan et al. 2009, cited previously in connection with nominal compound interpretation) sets aside syntactic ambiguity but tries to deal with pervasive semantic looseness in the meanings of nominal compounds, metonymy, and other linguistic devices.

It should also be stressed that the nominal compound concentration in antiproliferative assays is that of agent added to the culture medium, rather than the actual concentration within cells, and drug transport can also be a key determinant in reaching the concentration required to achieve an effect.

Carr, C. T. Nominal Compounds in Germanic (St. Andrews Univ., 1939).

Terasawa, J. Nominal Compounds in Old English: A Metrical Approach (Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1994).

All the words are bimorphemic nominal compounds which consist of free morphemes and have the structure of modifier-head and mid-range frequencies.

For example, words like bank, recover, and cool have multiple meanings even as members of the same lexical category; nominal compounds such as ice bucket, ice sculpture, olive oil, or baby oil leave unspecified the underlying relation between the nominals (such as constituency or purpose).

Coming back briefly to nominal compounds of form N N, note that unlike conventional compounds such as ice bucket or ice sculpture ones approachable using an enriched lexicon, heuristic rules, or statistical techniques some compounds can acquire a variety of meanings as a function of context.

We have already created a semantic transparency dataset SimTransCNC 1.0 which contains the overall and constituent semantic transparency rating data of about 1200 Chinese bimorphemic nominal compounds which have mid-range word frequencies and consist of free morphemes (Wang et al. 2014a).

Nominal compounds are quite frequent.

The disproportionate impairment, which emerged in reading the verb component of nominal VN compounds, indicates that the grammatical properties of constituents are being retrieved, and thus confirms access to the constituent lemma-nodes.

Table 4 Accuracy and precision of nucleosides determination Compound Nominal conc.