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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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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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The contributions in this volume shed new light on the discussion of whether the DP hypothesis applies universally or not. The issue is prominent not only for Slavic languages. Drawing on evidence from many other languages, Greek, East Asian, and Basque among them, the book has important implications for answering fundamental questions about the nature of definiteness and quantification.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Slavic languages --- Generative grammar. --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Historical linguistics. --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Linguistic typology --- Linguistic universals --- Grammar, Generative --- Grammar, Transformational --- Grammar, Transformational generative --- Transformational generative grammar --- Transformational grammar --- Psycholinguistics --- Syntax --- Noun --- Nominals (Grammar) --- Noun-equivalents (Grammar) --- Substantives (Grammar) --- Nominals. --- Noun. --- Grammar. --- Syntax. --- History --- Typology --- Classification --- Derivation --- Nominals --- Noun phrase --- Generative grammar --- Historical linguistics --- Grammar --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Generative Grammar. --- Nominal Phrase.

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In The Morphosyntax of the Noun Phrase in Hieroglyphic Luwian Anna H. Bauer provides a full and detailed account of the noun phrases in Hieroglyphic Luwian, an Anatolian language attested mainly in inscriptions from the first millennium BC. The available material is analysed according to the different elements found in the NP, and a chapter each is devoted to determination, quantification, modification and apposition. Along with discussing the structures from a synchronic point of view, Anna Bauer also draws parallels to neighbouring languages and ongoing changes within HLuwian itself. It is shown how other languages have left their mark on HLuwian and how that influences the HLuwian system.

Luwian language --- Inscriptions, Luwian. --- Inscriptions, Hieroglyphic. --- Anatolian languages --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Morphosyntactic features --- Morphosyntax --- Noun phrase --- Subject (Grammar) --- Indo-European languages --- Hieroglyphic inscriptions --- Luwian inscriptions --- Inscriptions, Hittite --- Luian language --- Lûish language --- Luvian language --- Extinct languages --- Grammar. --- Morphology. --- Noun phrase. --- Morphosyntax. --- Morphology --- Syntax --- Complex nominals --- Subject --- Nominals --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Luwian language - Grammar --- Inscriptions, Luwian --- Inscriptions, Hieroglyphic --- Anatolian languages - Morphology --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Noun phrase --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphosyntax