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Rijkhoff investigates noun phrases in the world's 6000 or so languages and proposes a layered semantic model to describe their underlying structure in any language. This book assumes no knowledge of a particular formal or functional theory of grammar.
1. Preliminaries -- 2. Nominal Subcategories: Seinsarten -- 3. Nouns: Real and Apparent Nominal Subclasses -- 4. Qualifying Modifiers in the Noun Phrase -- 5. Quantifying Modifiers in the Noun Phrase -- 6. Localizing Modifiers in the Noun Phrase -- 7. The Underlying Structure of Noun Phrases -- 8. Ordering Principles, Domain Integrity, and Discontinuity -- 9. Greenbergian Word Order Correlations and the Principle of Head Proximity -- 10. The Principle of Scope -- 11. Epilogue.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-388) and indexes.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002
Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory