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Adjective Order within Noun Phrases

2017· other· en· W3213361400 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueThe Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition · 2017
Typeother
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAdjectiveLinguisticsNoun phraseNounMeaning (existential)Focus (optics)Computer scienceWord orderContext (archaeology)Variety (cybernetics)Representation (politics)PhraseNatural language processingArtificial intelligencePsychologyHistoryPhilosophy

Abstract

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Abstract One of the main difficulties concerning adjective placement is the establishment of clear semantic or syntactic criteria to account for their positioning within the noun phrase (DP) – both with respect to each other and relative to the noun they modify – in a variety of syntactically and morphologically different languages. Hetzron provided a first attempt at drawing general cross‐linguistic observations by looking at several languages of different types. His conclusion was that, based on a certain number of semantic criteria, there is some kind of universal ordering of adjectives, with a few exceptions that are either language‐specific or contextually motivated. As our knowledge of the syntactic representation of DPs improved over the years, analyses of adjective placement became more detailed and complex, and various authors proposed increasingly fine‐grained accounts (e.g. via N‐movement) of the relationship between their position in the DP and their meaning. Recent analyses develop a more detailed and principled account of the mapping between meaning and surface position, as well as a better understanding of the syntactic origin of adjectives. Bouchard addressed a number of problems with the original N‐movement analysis, while at the same time attempting to subsume the issue of adjective placement under more general considerations regarding cognition and language processing. The goal of this chapter is to present a brief overview of adjective ordering analyses in their historical context and present in detail the most current and influential views on the topic. For this reason, the focus will be mainly on Romance (Italian and French) and Germanic (English) languages, the two language types most studied in this respect.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.117
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0520.006

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.246
Teacher spread0.221 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it