complex proper name, including names of persons, places and even periods of time

CRITERIA

1. cannot be counted, except in what traditional rhetoric calls the Vossian style. ( 十堯 does not mean "ten copies of Ya2o", but "ten people of the general kind defined by Ya2o as a typical example".)

2. cannot be quantified with words for "all", "some", or "many"

3. take non-restrictive adjectival modification

There are borderline cases where one is not certain whether an NP deserves to be called NPpr. In "even ten Yaos cannot govern such a state", Yao is not really a proper name, or is it? Perhaps we should simply treat the words like "Yao" in this sentence as a plain count noun. That is the logically attractive solution - which flies in the face of etymology and "Sprachgefuehl".

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Usage

• Lexical entries: 1712

• Found 1211 attributions

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Hypernym

• NP

Hyponym

• NPpr.post-V{NUM}