TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ho-Cheong Leung,Alex
AU  - Wurff,Wim van der
TI  - The Noun Phrase in English: Past and Present
T2  - Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Series
SN  - 9789027264060
AV  - PE1201 
U1  - 425.54 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Amsterdam/Philadelphia
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Company
KW  - English language-Noun phrase
KW  - English language-Syntax
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- The Noun Phrase in English -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Chapter 1. Introduction to the noun phrase in English: New clues to the past and the present -- References -- Chapter 2. Complex NPs with third-order entity clauses: Towards a grammatical description and semantic typology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Main analyses in the literature -- 2.1 Complex NPs with appositive clauses -- 2.2 Complex NPs with noun complement clauses -- 3. Basic outline of a grammatical description -- 3.1 Complex NPs with a complementation relation between noun and clause -- 3.2 Complex NPs with a modification relation between noun and clause -- 3.3 The main feature shared: nominalised third order entity clauses -- 4. A semantic typology of NPs with third-order entity clauses -- 4.1 A semantic typology of NPs with a complementation relation between noun and clause -- 4.2 A semantic typology of NPs with a modification relation between noun and clause -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 3. Adjective stacking in Early Modern English: Some stylistic considerations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The notion of stacking and the diachrony of the English NP -- 2.1 Preliminary remarks -- 2.2 Feist's (2012) account of the development of the NP adjective string -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Analysis -- 4.1 General results -- 4.2 Two-adjective strings in EModE -- 5. Descriptive modification in EModE -- 5.1 Co-ordinated vs. stacked strings: Genre distribution -- 6. Indirect and unitary modification -- 6.1 Unitary modification -- 6.2 Indirect modification -- 7. Discussion -- 8. Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 4. The rich, the poor, the obvious: Arguing for an ellipsis analysis of "adjectives used as nouns" -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Properties of the Human and the Abstract Construction: A contrastive perspective; 2.1 The constructions in English -- 2.2 The constructions in German -- 2.3 Adjectives or nouns? -- 3. Parallels to noun ellipsis -- 3.1 Overlap in form and function -- 3.2 Apparent counterarguments -- 4. Empty nouns and anaphora -- 4.1 Arguing for an empty noun analysis -- 4.2 Silent and overt empty nouns in English -- 4.3 Language-specific differences -- 4.4 Anaphora and antecedents -- 5. Summary and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Corpora -- References -- Chapter 5. Variable article usage with institutional nouns: An "oddment" of English? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 2.1 Variable article use and construction grammar -- 2.2 Article use and category gradience -- 3. Data -- 3.1 Data retrieval and post-editing -- 3.2 Semantics -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Raw frequencies and proportions -- 4.2 Multivariate analysis -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 6. Anaphoric reference in Early Modern English: The case of said and same -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 Background to the said + N -- 2.2 Background to the same -- 3. Further data: Frequency and distance -- 3.1 The frequency of said and same in EModE: Methodology -- 3.2 The frequency of said and same in EModE: Results -- 3.3 The distance of said and same in EModE -- 4. The decline of said and same: Causation -- 4.1 The decline of said: Wrong word, wrong place -- 4.2 The decline of same: Too costly, too long -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 7. That-complementiser omission in N + be + that-clauses: Register variation or constructional change? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The object under investigation: Characterising the N + be + that construction -- 3. Complementiser omission in verbal that-complementation: A short review -- 4. Materials, methods and diagnostic criteria; 5. Findings I: The early development up to 1810 -- 6. Findings II: The development from 1810 to today -- 6.1 The birds' eye view: The overall development -- 6.2 Zooming in on individual nouns -- 7. Discussion -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix. Survey of data from COHA -- Index of terms -- Index of names
N2  - Building on a substantial earlier literature, the chapters in this volume further advance knowledge and understanding of properties of the noun phrase in English
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