The noun phrase in English
Subtitle: past and present
By: edited by Alex Ho-Cheong Leung, Wim van der Wurff
Series: Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today (LA) -- volume 246; Linguistik aktuell -- Bd. 246.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9789027200723; 9789027264060
Subjects: English language; Noun phrase
Description: "Building on a substantial earlier literature, the chapters in this volume further advance knowledge and understanding of properties of the noun phrase in English. The empirical material for the papers includes both historical and present-day data, with the two often shedding light on each other in a process of mutual illumination. The topics addressed are: the structure of nounless NPs like the poor and the obvious; the article/zero alternation in expressions like go to (the) church; developments in the early history of adjective stacking; the semantics of N + clause units in present-day English; the history of N + BE + clause constructions; and the decline of two anaphoric NPs in Early Modern English. The volume will appeal to scholars working in this area and will also help those interested in the general field of English grammar to keep abreast of recent methods and results in NP-related work"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the noun phrase in English: New clues to the past and the present / Alex Ho-Cheong Leung and Wim van der Wurff; title: Complex NPs with third-order entity clauses: Towards a grammatical description and semantic typology / Kristin Davidse; title: Adjective stacking in Early Modern English: Some stylistic considerations / Victorina González-Díaz; title: The rich, the poor, the obvious: Arguing for an ellipsis analysis of "adjectives used as nouns" / Christine Günther; title: Variable article usage with institutional nouns: An "oddment" of English? / Marianne Hundt; title: Anaphoric reference in Early Modern English: The case of said and same / Alex Ho-Cheong Leung and Wim van der Wurff; title: That-complementiser omission in N + be + that-clauses: Register variation or constructional change? / Annette Mantlik and Hans-Jörg Schmid.