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A Study on the Partial Positive Structure of the Same Noun of Person

Xu Ying 1

1동국대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper talks about the partial positive structure of the noun combination of the same person, such as “the lover of lover”, “the classmate of classmate”, “the brother of brother”, “the father of father”, namely, “the NP of NP” format. The work primarily exploits the semantic concepts of self - returning, symmetry and transfer, to analyze the characteristics of nouns in this format. In addition, the paper discusses the problem that how to determine the final target in the extended format of “the NP of NP”, and discusses the semantic and pragmatic features of this format. Our work also compares the structure of the noun combination of the same person and that of the same position, and analyzes the reasons lying behind their similarities and differences. The analysis of this paper is helpful to discover different types of “the NP of NP” format, as well as the role of the format in the pragmatic function, which provides a new perspective for the study of partial positive structure.

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