So, while Romance languages separate nouns by gender, the Algonquin sees the world in terms of things that have spirit and things that do not.
In Robert Fagles's version, Calypso talks in syntactical wreaths, separating nouns from their modifiers; she interjects asides.
This raises an important question: are abstract mass nouns a separate species of mass nouns, with their own semantic properties?
Sometimes whole clauses can dangle, too, as we see in the sentence: "Jones returned to direct the play last summer, which drew rave reviews". Here, the relative clause that begins with "which" is separated from the noun it modifies — "play" — by the phrase "last summer". There are two easy ways to fix danglers.
There are also separate sets of nominal (noun) and pronominal (pronoun) endings.
2326, 60 L.Ed.2d 931979979), we refused to ignore the statutory meaning which would be presumed from similar disjunctive language, stating that the use of the term "or" indicates an intent to give the nouns their separate, normal meanings.
This effect was found not only for the whole three-word definition, but also the separate size and adjective-noun components of the definition.
For example, extraction patterns that look for noun phrases separated by "such as" or "and other" will match word sequences like "seabirds such as penguins and albatrosses" or "beans, nuts, and other legumes", leading to hypotheses that seabird is a hypernym of penguin and albatross, and that beans and nuts are hyponyms of legumes.
But that raises the question: How is it possible that some adjectives before a noun are separated with commas and some aren't?
For a separate set of 541 nouns denoting living and nonliving things, word frequency was correlated with number of semantic features, with correlations ranging from r = 0.12 to 0.19 (all significant at P < 0.01), depending on the source of the frequency measures (McRae et al. 2005).
