AdjectivalModification

. This paper studies the adjectival modification to nouns in Mandarin Chinese based on selective binding. The main findings include: ⑴An adjective can select different types of head nouns as …...

Adjectival modification, particularly by ex- pressions that have been treated as higher- order modifiers in the formal semantics tradi- tion, raises interesting challenges for semantic composition in distributional semantic mod- …...