Chapter 8. Complex noun phrases

doi:10.1075/z.232.c8

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Grammar of Spoken and Written English
Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey N. Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan
[Not in series 232] 2021
► pp. 567–650

Chapter 8
Complex noun phrases

Article outline

8.1Overview
- 8.1.1Register distribution of noun phrases with pre- and postmodifiers
  - corpus findings ^,
  - discussion of findings
- 8.1.2Co-occurrence of modifiers with head noun types
  - corpus findings ^,
  - discussion of findings
- 8.1.3Discourse distribution of noun phrase types in academic prose
  - corpus findings
  - discussion of findings
8.2Structural types of premodification
- 8.2.1Structural types of premodification across registers
  - corpus findings ^,
  - discussion of findings
8.3Meaning relations expressed by noun + noun sequences
- 8.3.1Noun + noun sequences across registers
  - corpus findings
  - discussion of findings
- 8.3.2Plural nouns as premodifiers
  - corpus findings ^,
  - discussion of findings
8.4Noun phrases with multiple premodifiers
- 8.4.1Length of sequences of premodifiers
  - corpus findings ^,
  - discussion of findings
- 8.4.2Order of multiple premodifiers
  - corpus findings ^,
  - discussion of findings
- 8.4.3Coordinated premodifiers
  - corpus findings
  - discussion of findings
8.5Restrictive v. non-restrictive postmodifiers
- 8.5.1Distribution of restrictive v. non-restrictive relative clauses
  - corpus findings
  - discussion of findings
8.6Major structural types of postmodification
- 8.6.1Postmodifier types across registers
  - corpus findings ^,^,
  - discussion of findings
8.7Postmodification by finite relative clause
- 8.7.1The discourse choice among relativizers
  - 8.7.1.1Variant relativizers in non-standard dialects
  - 8.7.1.2Distribution of relativizers across registers
    - corpus findings
    - DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS
  - 8.7.1.3 Who v. which, that, and zero
    - corpus findings
    - discussion of findings
  - 8.7.1.4Who v. whom, that, and zero
    - corpus findings
    - discussion of findings
  - 8.7.1.5 Which v. that
    - corpus findings
    - discussion of findings
  - 8.7.1.6Discourse choice between whose and of which
  - 8.7.1.7 Whose v. of which across registers
    - corpus findings ^,
    - discussion of findings
  - 8.7.1.8Discourse choice of the zero relativizer
    - corpus findings ^,
    - discussion of findings
- 8.7.2Grammatical role of the relative clause gap
  - corpus findings
  - discussion of findings
  - 8.7.2.1Relative clause gaps in conversation
- 8.7.3Subject v. non-subject head nouns
  - corpus findings
  - discussion of findings
- 8.7.4Relative clauses with adverbial gaps
  - 8.7.4.1Relative adverbs across registers
    - corpus findings
    - discussion of findings
  - 8.7.4.2Head nouns taking relative clauses with adverbial gaps
    - DISTRIBUTIONAL FINDINGS
    - discussion of findings
8.8Postmodification by non-finite clause
- 8.8.1Participle clauses as postmodifiers
  - 8.8.1.1Passive and -ing forms of verbs in postmodifying participle clauses v. relative clauses
    - corpus findings
    - discussion of findings
- 8.8.2 To-clauses as postmodifiers
  - 8.8.2.1Structural types of postmodifying to-clause
    - corpus findings ^,
    - discussion of findings
8.9Postmodification by prepositional phrase
- 8.9.1Common prepositions in postmodifying prepositional phrases
  - corpus findings ^,
  - discussion of findings
- 8.9.2Choice of prepositional phrase v. relative clause
  - corpus findings ^,
  - discussion of findings
8.10Postmodification by appositive noun phrase
- 8.10.1Appositive noun phrases in news and academic prose
  - corpus findings ^,
  - discussion of findings
8.11Noun phrases with multiple postmodifiers
- 8.11.1Order of constituents in postmodifier complexes
  - corpus findings ^,
  - discussion of findings
8.12Noun complement clauses v. nominal postmodifiers
8.13Structural types of noun complement clause
- 8.13.1Noun complement clause types across registers
  - corpus findings ^,
  - discussion of findings
8.14Head nouns taking noun complement clauses
- 8.14.1Head nouns taking that-clauses
  - corpus findings
  - discussion of findings
  - 8.14.1.1Head nouns that take both that-complement clauses and relative clauses
    - corpus findings
    - discussion of findings
- 8.14.2Head nouns taking to-clauses
  - corpus findings
    - DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS
- 8.14.3Head nouns taking of + ing-clauses
  - corpus findings
  - discussion of findings
- 8.14.4Head nouns taking wh-interrogative clauses

Published online: 29 November 2021

https://doi.org/10.1075/z.232.c8

Chapter 8Complex noun phrases

Chapter 8
Complex noun phrases