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This monograph presents a new model of the internal syntax of nominal phrases. The model is mainly based on Scandinavian, since with the wide range of variation that Scandinavian displays in the nominal domain, despite the close genetic relationship between the different varieties, Scandinavian is particularly well-suited for explorations into nominal syntax. Among the topics covered are the basic syntactic structure of nominal phrases, definiteness, adjective phrases, possessors, relative clauses, and nominal predicates. The model is however meant to be a tool for analysing the nominal phrase.

Scandinavian languages --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Nominals (Grammar) --- Noun-equivalents (Grammar) --- Substantives (Grammar) --- Nordic languages --- Norse languages --- North Germanic languages --- Germanic languages --- Nominals. --- Noun phrase --- Nominals --- Linguistics --- Philology

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Grammar, Comparative and general --- Finiteness (Linguistics) --- Morphosyntactic features --- Morphosyntax --- Finite (Linguistics) --- Nominals (Grammar) --- Noun-equivalents (Grammar) --- Substantives (Grammar) --- Nominals. --- Morphosyntax. --- Morphology --- Syntax --- Noun phrase --- 801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Finiteness (Linguistics). --- Functionalism (Linguistics). --- Parenthetical constructions. --- Functionalism (Linguistics)

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Recent scholarship has confirmed earlier observations that nominalization plays a crucial role in the formation of complex constructions in the world’s languages. Grammatical nominalizations are one of the most salient and widespread features of languages of the Americas, yet they have not been approached as foundational grammatical structures for constructions such as relative clauses and complement clauses. This is due to an imbalance in past scholarship, which has tended to focus on these constructions at the expense of the nominalization structures underlying them. The papers in this collection treat grammatical nominalizations in their own right, and as a starting point for the investigation of their uses in complex grammatical structures. A representative sample of Amerindian languages, with focus on South America, examines properties of grammatical nominalizations such as their multiple functions, their internal and external syntax, and their diachronic development. Among the far-reaching theoretical conclusions reached by the studies in this volume is that the various types of relative clauses recognized in the typological literature are actually no more than epiphenomena arising from the different uses of grammatical nominalizations.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- South American Indian languages --- E-books --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Noun --- Nominals (Grammar) --- Noun-equivalents (Grammar) --- Substantives (Grammar) --- Nominals. --- Noun. --- Syntax. --- Nominals --- Noun phrase --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- America --- Languages.

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The following theoretical-empirical points on the DP are discussed: Article and its referential-anaphoric properties by Abraham (Determiners in Centering Theory); Bartra (On bare NPs in Old Spanish and Catalan); identification of all functional nominal categories by Stvan (Bare singular count nouns); Kupisch & Koops (Specificity and negation); Jäger (History of German indefinite determiners); typological comparison of the interaction of nominal and verbal determination by Abraham (Discourse-functional crystallization of the or­ig­inal demonstrative); Leiss (Covert (in)definiteness and aspect in Old Icelandic, Goth­ic, Old High German); Lohndal (Double definiteness during Old Norse); emergence of DP in ontogeny/phylogeny by Osawa (DP, TP and aspect in Old English and L1 acquisition); Bittner (Early functions of definites in L1 acquisition); Wood (Demonstratives and possessives emergent from Old English); Bauer ((in)defin­ite articles in Indo-European) and Stark (Variation in nominal indefiniteness in Romance).

Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Definiteness (Linguistics) --- Nominals (Grammar) --- Noun-equivalents (Grammar) --- Substantives (Grammar) --- Indefiniteness (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Determinatives (Linguistics) --- Determiners (Linguistics) --- Classifiers (Linguistics) --- Determiners. --- Nominals. --- Noun phrase --- Determiners --- Déterminants (Linguistique) --- Définis (Linguistique) --- Nominaux --- Definiteness (Linguistics). --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Nominals --- Philology

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In this work, David Pesetsky argues that the peculiarities of Russian nominal phrases provide significant clues concerning the syntactic side of morphological case. Pesetsky argues against the traditional view that case categories such as nominative or genitive have a special status in the grammar of human languages.

Grammar, Comparative and general -- Nominals. --- Russian language -- Case. --- Russian language -- Morphology. --- Russian language -- Syntax. --- Russian language --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Case. --- Morphology. --- Syntax. --- Nominals. --- LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General --- Nominals (Grammar) --- Noun-equivalents (Grammar) --- Substantives (Grammar) --- Noun phrase --- Nominals --- Case --- Morphology --- Syntax --- Languages & Literatures --- Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages & Literatures --- Linguistics --- Philology