The Noun Phrase in English
Past and present
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 process of mutual illumination. The topics addressed are: the structure of nounless NPs like the poor and the obvious; the article/zero alternation in expressions like go to (the) church; developments in the early history of adjective stacking; the semantics of N + clause units in present-day English; the history of N + BE + clause constructions; and the decline of two anaphoric NPs in Early Modern English. The volume will appeal to scholars working in this area and will also help those interested in the general field of English grammar to keep abreast of recent methods and results in NP-related work.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 246] 2018. v, 229 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 14 May 2018
Published online on 14 May 2018
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1. Introduction to the noun phrase in English: New clues to the past and the presentAlex Ho-Cheong Leung and Wim van der Wurff | pp. 1–10
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Chapter 2. Complex NPs with third-order entity clauses: Towards a grammatical description and semantic typologyKristin Davidse | pp. 11–46
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Chapter 3. Adjective stacking in Early Modern English: Some stylistic considerationsVictorina González-Díaz | pp. 47–76
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Chapter 4. The rich, the poor, the obvious: Arguing for an ellipsis analysis of “adjectives used as nouns”Christine Günther | pp. 77–112
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Chapter 5. Variable article usage with institutional nouns: An “oddment” of English?Marianne Hundt | pp. 113–142
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Chapter 6. Anaphoric reference in Early Modern English: The case of said and sameAlex Ho-Cheong Leung and Wim van der Wurff | pp. 143–186
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Chapter 7. That-complementiser omission in N + be + that-clauses: Register variation or constructional change?Annette Mantlik and Hans-Jörg Schmid | pp. 187–222
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Index of terms | pp. 223–226
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Index of names | pp. 227–229
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2022. Major trends in research on the English NP. In English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective [Studies in Language Companion Series, 221], ► pp. 1 ff. 
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF/2AB: Linguistics/English
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009060: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax