The noun phrase /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rijkhoff, Jan
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Series:	Oxford linguistics. Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory.
Subjects:	Grammar, Comparative and general > Noun phrase. Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax. Syntaxe. Languages & Literatures. Philology & Linguistics. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.