Noun Phrase Complexity in English

The Noun Phrase in English: Past and pre

📁 The Noun Phrase in English: Past and present

✍ Alex Ho-Cheong Leung, Wim van der Wurff 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 John Benjamins Publishing Company 🌐 English

Building on a substantial earlier literature, the chapters in this volume further advance knowledge and understanding of properties of the noun phrase in English. The empirical material for the papers includes both historical and present-day data, with the two often shedding light on each other in a

Noun Combination in Interlanguage: Typol

📁 Noun Combination in Interlanguage: Typology Effects in Complex Determiner Phrases

✍ Christiane Bongartz 📂 Library 📅 2002 🏛 Max Niemeyer Verlag 🌐 English

This study examines effects of L1 typology on the interlanguage of L2 learners of English. Czech learners use phrasal constructs (the song about love) significantly more often than Chinese learners, who prefer noun+noun compounds (the love song). Determiner properties and the proces

The Elliptical Noun Phrase in English: S

📁 The Elliptical Noun Phrase in English: Structure and Use

✍ Christine Günther 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

This book presents a detailed analysis of structural as well as pragmatic aspects underlying the phenomenon of noun ellipsis in English. Here Günther examines the structure of elliptical noun phrases to account for the conditions on noun ellipsis and those on one-insertion, with special emphasis

The Elliptical Noun Phrase in English: S

📁 The Elliptical Noun Phrase in English: Structure and Use

✍ Christine Günther 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

This book presents a detailed analysis of structural as well as pragmatic aspects underlying the phenomenon of noun ellipsis in English. Here Günther examines the structure of elliptical noun phrases to account for the conditions on noun ellipsis and those on one-insertion, with special emphasis

The English Noun Phrase: The Nature of L

📁 The English Noun Phrase: The Nature of Linguistic Categorization (Studies in English Language)

✍ Evelien Keizer 📂 Library 📅 2007 🌐 English

English has an interesting variety of noun phrases, which differ greatly in structure. Examples are 'binominal' (two-noun) phrases ('a beast of a party'); possessive constructions ('the author's opinion'); and discontinuous noun phrases ('the review [came out yesterday] of his book'). How are these

The English Noun Phrase The Nature of L

📁 The English Noun Phrase The Nature of Linguistic Categorization (Studies in English Language)

✍ Evelien Keizer 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

English has an interesting variety of noun phrases, which differ greatly in structure. Examples are binominal (two-noun) phrases (a beast of a party) possessive constructions (the authors opinion) and discontinuous noun phrases (the review [came out yesterday] of his book). How are these different n

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