БРOЈ АТРИБУТИВНИХ ИМЕНИЦА КАО ФАКТОР ПРОМЈЕНЕ ЗНАЧЕЊА У ИМЕНИЧКОЈ ФРАЗИ
NUMBER OF PREMODIFYING NOUNS AS A MEANING CHANGING INDICATOR IN A NOUN PHRASE

Summary/Abstract: One of the most important characteristic of English premodifying nouns is that they become singular, even those that do not have a singular form, for example (Greenbaum and Quirk 1990: 388) leg of the trouser – the trouser leg. On the other hand, the increase of number of plural premodifying nouns becomes an even more present trend (Quirk et al. 1985: 1333) because the ambugity of the noun phrase is eliminated in this way. The main aim of this paper is to show in what way the use of plural premodifying nouns helps the avoidance of misunderstanding in interpreting the meaning of the noun phrase. Examples taken from the newspaper register and the use of descriptive and analytic methods lead us to a conclusion that plural premodifying nouns are useful signals that help the readers to understand sometimes complex semantic relations in the noun phrase.

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