Eurotyp: 7 Noun Phrase Structure in the Languages of Europe

✍ Scribed by Frans Plank (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 877
• Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]; 20-7
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The result of over five years of close collaboration among an international group of leading typologists within the EUROTYP program, this volume is about the morphology and syntax of the noun phrase. Particular attention is being paid to nominal inflectional categories and inflectional systems and to the syntax of determination, modification, and conjunction. Its areal focus, like that of other EUROTYP volumes, is on the languages of Europe; but in order to appreciate what is peculiarly European about their noun phrases, a more comprehensive and genuinely typological view is being taken at the full range of cross-linguistic variation within this structural domain. There has been no shortage lately of contributions to the theory of noun phrase structure; the present volume is, however, unique in the extent to which its theorizing is empirically grounded.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Contents detailed
Contributors
Abbreviations
Noun phrase structure: An und für sich, in time, and in space
Nominal inflection galore: Daghestanian, with side glances at Europe and the world
Inflectional morphology in the Hungarian noun phrase: A typological assessment
The selective elaboration of nominal or pronominal inflection
Types of typology, illustrated from gender systems
Double articulation
Non-compositional definiteness marking in Hungarian noun phrases
English goes Asian: Number and (in)definiteness in the Singlish noun phrase
A woman of sin, a man of duty, and a hell of a mess: Non-determiner genitives in Swedish
The interaction between numerals and nouns
Possessive noun phrases in the languages of Europe
Action nominal constructions in the languages of Europe
Noun phrase conjunction: The coordinative and the comitative strategy
Backmatter