Singular Common Noun
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A singular common noun is a common noun that is also a singular noun.
- Context:
- It can represent an Entity Type.
- It can be tagged with a NN in Penn Treebank Format.
- It can be related to a Plural Common Noun. E.g. cabbage ⇒ cabbages.
- Example(s):
- carrier, cabbage, knuckle-duster, Casino, afghan, shed, thermostat, investment,
slide, humour, falloff, slick, wind, hyena, override, subhumanity, machinist ... - …
- carrier, cabbage, knuckle-duster, Casino, afghan, shed, thermostat, investment,
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Definite Description Phrase.
References
1990
- The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) Treebank Tag-set http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/amalgam/tagsets/upenn.html
- QUOTE: Further reading: Santorini, B. (1990). Part-of-speech tagging guidelines for the Penn Treebank Project. Technical report MS-CIS-90-47, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania.
Examples: carrier cabbage knuckle-duster Casino afghan shed thermostat investment slide humour falloff slick wind hyena override subhumanity machinist ...
- QUOTE: Further reading: Santorini, B. (1990). Part-of-speech tagging guidelines for the Penn Treebank Project. Technical report MS-CIS-90-47, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania.