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The Noun Phrase

By Jan Rijkhoff

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0198237820, 9780198237822
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
15 MB (16194276 bytes)
Series
Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory
Edition
1
Pages
432\0
Time added
2017-04-23 11:17:04
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Description

Jan Rijkhoff investigates noun phrases--linguistic constructions with the noun as central element--in a representative sample of the world's 6000 languages and proposes a semantic model to describe their underlying structure. Assuming no knowledge of any formal or functional theory of grammar, he shows that the noun phrase word order patterns of any language can be derived from three universal ordering principles and furthermore that these principles are elaborations of a general ordering strategy, by which elements that belong together semantically tend to occur together syntactically.

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