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Name

Title-NP Constructions

Semantic function of cxn

Referring to a PERSON indicating academic qualifications or positions in society.

Syntactic form

FULL-NAME CX + ACADEMIC DEGREE CX	David Cameron, MA (Oxon)
FULL-NAME CX + POSITION CX	David Cameron, M.P.
ACADEMIC-TITLE CX + LAST-NAME CX	Professor Goldberg, Dr. Smith
ACADEMIC-TITLE CX + COMPLEX FULL-NAME CX	Professor Ronald W. Langacker
FIRST-NAME CX the ordinal-number	Elizabeth II
TITLE-CX + FIRST-NAME CX	Princess Diana

General cxn-type

NAME CONSTRUCTION

Construction family

NP CONSTRUCTION

Literature

Herbst & Hoffmann (2023: Ch.5)

Annotators/Date

TRH/04/21F