The Noun Phrase
ISBN-13:
9780199269648
Veröffentl:
2004
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
08.01.2004
Seiten:
434
Autor:
Jan Rijkhoff
Gewicht:
655 g
Format:
234x156x23 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Jan Rijkhoff investigates noun phrases--linguistic constructions with the noun as central element--in a representative sample of the world's 6000 languages and proposes a semantic model to describe their underlying structure. Assuming no knowledge of any formal or functional theory of grammar, he shows that the noun phrase word order patterns of any language can be derived from three universal ordering principles and furthermore that these principles are elaborations of a general ordering strategy, by which elements that belong together semantically tend to occur together syntactically.
Investigates noun phrases in a representative sample of the world's 6,000 or so languages and proposes a semantic model to describe their underlying structure in any natural language. This book is of interest to linguists and students of linguistics of all theoretical persuasions, as well as students of the cognitive sciences and anthropology.
1. Preliminaries; 2. Nominal Subcategories: Seinsarten; 3. Nouns: Real and Apparent Nominal Subclasses; 4. Qualifying Modifiers in the Noun Phrase; 5. Quantifying Modifiers in the Noun Phrase; 6. Localizing Modifiers in the Noun Phrase; 7. The Underlying Structure of Noun Phrases; 8. Ordering Principles, Domain Integrity, and Discontinuity; 9. Greenbergian Word Order Correlations and the Principle of Head Proximity; 10. The Principle of Scope; 11. Epilogue; Further Reading