COMPLEX NOUN PHRASES IN THE LANGUAGE OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
COMPLEX NOUN PHRASES IN THE LANGUAGE OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: As the world of Computers and Information Technology is expanding, new realities of language production are becoming apparent. The complexity of nominal phrases is particularly interesting as ICT language is fostering an environment characterized by the stringent need for expressiveness paired with the brevity needed in this engineering field. The nominal structures resulting from reference to gadgets and computer technology are often intricate and contain multi-layered relations between components. The observed trend of the NPs to increase in syntactic complexity in order to convey elaborate meanings is what has aroused our interest. The aim of the current research is to classify and analyse the syntactic specificity of the Noun Phrases in the linguistic output pertaining to computer technology by investigating concrete manifestations and occurrences in a corpus of articles heralding new technologies in online technology magazines.

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