English noun phrases from a functional-cognitive perspective : current issues / edited by Lotte Sommerer, Evelien Keizer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sommerer, Lotte, editor.

Keizer, Evelien, editor.

John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; volume 221.

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; volume 221

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Noun phrase.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Major trends in research on the English NP / Evelien Keizer and Lotte Sommerer

Determination, modification & complementation. Refining and re-defining secondary determiners in relation to primary determiners / Kristin Davidse

The rivalry between definiteness and specificity: the grammaticalization of definiteness in DP emergence / Fuyo Osawa

Post-head compression in noun phrase referring expressions: structural change in interactive communication / Rahel Oppliger

From noun to verb: modeling variation in the English gerund system / Charlotte Maekelberghe

Shell nouns & the X-is construction. Shell nouns as epistemic stance devices in English: a study of four epistemic modal nouns and four evidential nouns / Marta Carretero

Constructional variation and change in N-is focaliser constructions / Marianne Hundt

Premodification in X-is constructions: fact and point / Evelien Keizer

Binominal constructions. From an icy hell of a night to a hell of a fine story: the development of the English binominal noun phrase and beyond / Elnora ten Wolde

Time-measurement constructions in English: a corpus-based exploration / Melanie J. Bell and Carmen Portero Muñoz

Day to day and night after night: temporal NPN constructions in present day English / Lotte Sommerer

Coordinated phrases as dvandvas: a competition-theoretic perspective / Kazuya Nishimaki.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Amsterdam, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

9789027258250

9027258252

Publisher Number:

40030936620

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