User:DCDuring/Defining nouns

Things to think about for nouns:


 * 1) Focus on general, pan-English senses first (only?), but in all registers.
 * 2) Don't strain to include specialized senses (context-specific), especially outside an area of interest or knowledge.
 * 3) Get some etymology information.
 * 4) For thorny/puzzling cases where sense evolution info might help, delegate to or consult with someone with access to OED or use library's copy.
 * 5) Identify any odd grammar or complements.
 * 6) Identify any derived terms, especially (purported) idioms, for possibly "See" references or instances of specific grammar or meaning.
 * 7) Identify distinct senses
 * 8) Identify aspect dimensions
 * 9) Identify aspects
 * 10) Review usage at COCA first, then bgc, then news, then groups, then scholar.
 * 11) Compare against semantic roles: agent, benefactive, beneficiary, causer, experience, factitive, goal, instrument, location/locative, path, patient, recipient, source, stimulus, theme.
 * 12) Are there uncountable senses?

Nominals and noun phrases

 * 1) Are the elements separately coordinatable? London colleges=>1. London and Paris colleges; 2. London colleges and universities.
 * 2) Are the elements separately modifiable?
 * 3) Which is it?
 * 4) Fused-head NP
 * 5) Partitive fused-head NP
 * 6) Special "(adj) people" or "that which is (adj)"

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