Plank Noun Phrase Structure in the Languages of Europe

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019707-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 20-7, 872 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]

The result of over five years of close collaboration among an international group of leading typologists within the EUROTYP program, this volume is about the morphology and syntax of the noun phrase. Particular attention is being paid to nominal inflectional categories and inflectional systems and to the syntax of determination, modification, and conjunction. Its areal focus, like that of other EUROTYP volumes, is on the languages of Europe; but in order to appreciate what is peculiarly European about their noun phrases, a more comprehensive and genuinely typological view is being taken at the full range of cross-linguistic variation within this structural domain. There has been no shortage lately of contributions to the theory of noun phrase structure; the present volume is, however, unique in the extent to which its theorizing is empirically grounded.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Plank, Frans

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents detailed;11
3;Contributors;23
4;Abbreviations;25
5;Noun phrase structure: An und für sich, in time, and in space;31
6;Nominal inflection galore: Daghestanian, with side glances at Europe and the world;65
7;Inflectional morphology in the Hungarian noun phrase: A typological assessment;141
8;The selective elaboration of nominal or pronominal inflection;281
9;Types of typology, illustrated from gender systems;317
10;Double articulation;365
11;Non-compositional definiteness marking in Hungarian noun phrases;425
12;English goes Asian: Number and (in)definiteness in the Singlish noun phrase;495
13;A woman of sin, a man of duty, and a hell of a mess: Non-determiner genitives in Swedish;543
14;The interaction between numerals and nouns;589
15;Possessive noun phrases in the languages of Europe;649
16;Action nominal constructions in the languages of Europe;751
17;Noun phrase conjunction: The coordinative and the comitative strategy;789
18;Backmatter;849

Über Autor(innen)

Frans Plank is Professor at Konstanz University, Germany.