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Spanish language --- Grammar --- Noun phrase.
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"This book is the first typological study of adjective attribution marking. Its focus lies on Northern Eurasia, although it covers many more languages and presents an ontology of morphosyntactic categories relevant to noun phrase structure in general. Beside treating synchronic data, the study contributes to historical linguistics by reconstructing the origin of new types specifically in the language contact area between the Indo-European and Uralic families."
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The binomial noun phrase, or of-binomial, is an important phenomenon in the English language. Defined as a noun phrase that contains two related nouns, linked by the preposition of, examples include a hell of a day and a beast of a storm. This pioneering book provides the first extensive study of the evaluative binominal noun phrases (EBNP) in English, exploring the syntactic rules that govern them, and the (functional) semantic and pragmatic links between the two nouns. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, corpus data, and two different theoretical approaches (Construction Grammar and Functional Discourse Grammar), it argues that the EBNP now functions as a stage in a grammaticalization path that begins with a prototypical N+PP construction, continues with the head-classifier, and ends with two new of-binominal constructions: the evaluative modifier and binominal intensifier. Comprehensive in its scope, it is essential reading for researchers in syntax, semantics, and English corpus linguistics.
English language --- Noun phrase. --- Binomial. --- Prepositions. --- Germanic languages --- Noun phrase --- Binomial --- Prepositions
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The notion of formulaicity has received increasing attention in disciplines and areas as diverse as linguistics, literary studies, art theory and art history. In recent years, linguistic studies of formulaicity have been flourishing and the very notion of formulaicity has been approached from various methodological and theoretical perspectives and with various purposes in mind. The linguistic approach to formulaicity is still in a state of rapid development of the field and they are arranged into three complementary parts. The first part, with three chapters, presents new theoretical and methodological insights as well as their practical application in the development of custom-designed software tools for identification and exploration of formulaic language in texts. Two papers in the second part explore formulaic language in the context of language learning. Finally, the third part, with three chapters, showcases research on formulaic language conducted primarily from corpus linguistic, discourse studies and translation studies perspectives. The volume will be of interest to anyone involved in the study of formulaic language either from a theoretical or a practical perspective.
Collocation (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Noun phrase.
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"En septembre apparaissent les grosses araignées...", "Éclate le conflit...". Dans toutes ces phrases le sujet nominal apparaît à droite du verbe. C'est à ce phénomène, appelé inversion ou postposition du sujet nominal qu'est consacrée cette étude à travers laquelle l'auteure en dégage un modèle théorique.
French language --- Grammar --- Academic collection --- Word order. --- Noun phrase. --- Word order --- Noun phrase --- Français (langue) --- Syntagme nominal --- Inversion (linguistique)
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This book explores noun phrase complexity in English, showing that it is best accounted for both by a linear and a hierarchical parameter: its length and its type of postmodifier(s). The study is methodologically unique in that it combines univariate and multivariate analyses in an investigation of four different syntactic variables. Drawing on more than three billion words of British and American data, Eva Berlage shows that the length and the structure of the NPs, along with language-external factors such as the regional variety of English, work as powerful determinants of the variation. On a theoretical level, the book reveals that the structural complexity of NPs cannot be sufficiently captured by (phrasal) node counts but that we need to incorporate the degree to which NPs are sentential. The book is designed for researchers and students interested in syntax, language variation, sociolinguistics, structural complexity and the history of English.
English language --- Noun phrase. --- Syntax. --- Complex nominals --- Phrasal noun --- Subject --- Germanic languages --- English language - Noun phrase --- English language - Syntax
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The internal ordering of Latin noun phrases is very flexible in comparison with modern European languages. Whereas there are a number of studies devoted to the variable placement of modifiers, The Noun Phrase in Classical Latin Prose proposes an entirely new approach: a discussion of the semantic and syntactic properties of both nouns and modifiers. Using recent insights in general linguistics, it argues that not only pragmatic factors but also semantic factors (whether we are dealing with an inherent property, the author’s assessment, or a further specification of a referent) are responsible for the internal ordering of Latin noun phrases. Additionally, this book discusses prepositional phrases functioning as modifiers, and appositions, which have received little attention in the literature.
Classical Latin language --- Grammar --- Latin language --- Latin prose literature --- Latin (Langue) --- Prose latine --- Noun phrase --- Phrase nominale --- Noun phrase. --- Latein. --- Nominalphrase. --- Classical languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Classical philology --- Latin philology --- Latin language - Noun phrase
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English has an interesting variety of noun phrases, which differ greatly in structure. Examples are 'binominal' (two-noun) phrases ('a beast of a party'); possessive constructions ('the author's opinion'); and discontinuous noun phrases ('the review [came out yesterday] of his book'). How are these different noun phrases structured? How do we produce and understand them? These questions are central to this study, which explores the interaction between the form of noun phrases, their meaning, and their use. It shows how, despite the need in linguistic analysis for strict categories, many linguistic constructions in fact defy straightforward classification - and concludes that in order to fully explain the internal structure of utterances, we must first consider the communicative, pragmatic and cognitive factors that come into play. Drawing on a range of authentic examples, this book sheds light not only on the noun phrase itself but also the nature of linguistic classification.
English language --- Grammar --- Categorization (Linguistics) --- Noun phrase --- Noun phrase. --- Classification (Linguistics) --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Complex nominals --- Phrasal noun --- Subject --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Germanic languages --- English language - Noun phrase
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Estonian language --- -Estonian language --- -Baltic-Finnic languages --- Case --- Noun phrase --- Sentences --- Case. --- Noun phrase. --- Sentences. --- -Case --- Baltic-Finnic languages --- Estonien (langue)
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Crosslinguistic Studies on Noun Phrase Structure and Reference contains 11 studies on the grammar of noun phrases. Part One explores NP-structure and the impact of information structure, countability and number marking on interpretation, using data from Russian, Armenian, Hebrew, Brazilian Portuguese, Karitiana, Turkish, English, Catalan and Danish. Part Two examines language specific definiteness marking strategies in spoken and signed languages-differentiated definiteness marking in Germanic, double definiteness in Greek, adnominal demonstratives in Japanese, 'weak' definiteness in Martiniké and the special referring options made avilable by signing. Part Three examines the second-language acquisition of genericity in English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in syntax, formal semantics, and language acquisition.
Grammar, Comparative and general --- Noun phrase. --- Syntagme nominal --- Noun phrase --- Subject (Grammar) --- Complex nominals --- Subject --- Nominals --- Comparative linguistics --- Grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology
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