<<The>> 'noun phrase' across languages an emergent unit in interaction edited by Tsuyoshi Ono, Sandra A. Thompson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ono, Tsuyoshi.

Thompson, Sandra A.

Series:

Typological studies in language volume 128.

Typological studies in language ; Volume 128

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Noun phrase.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company [2020]

Summary:

"The 'NP' is one of the least controversial grammatical units that linguists work with. The NP is often assumed to be universal, and appears to be robust cross-linguistically (compared to 'VP' or even 'clause') in that it can be manipulated in argument positions in constructed examples. Furthermore, for any given language, its internal structure (order and type of modifiers) tends to be relatively fixed. Surprisingly, however, the empirical basis for 'NP' has never been established. The chapters in this volume examine the NP in ordinary interactions from diverse languages, including little-studied languages as well as better-researched ones, in a variety of interactional settings. Together, these chapters show that cross-linguistically, the category NP is not as robust as has been assumed: it is realized only in temporally unfolding human interaction, its structural status thus constantly being negotiated in terms of participants' social agendas"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction / Sandra A Thompson and Tsuyoshi Ono

Part I. Languages from Europe: 2 The Finnish se että initiated expressions: NPs or not? / Karita Suomalainen, Anna Vatanen and Ritva Laury

3. Emergent complex noun phrases: On-line trajectories of 'relativized' NPs in French talk-in-interaction / Ioana-Maria Stoenica, Simona Pekarek Doehler and Anne-Sylvie Horlacher

4. The noun phrase as an emergent unit in Finnish / Marja-Liisa Helasvuo

5. Noun phrases in other-repetitions: Observations of Swedish talk-in interaction / Jan Lindström, Martina Huhtamäki and Anne-Marie Londen

6. Asserting no-problemness in Spanish: 'No hay (ningún) problema' and the study of noun phrases in interaction / Chase Wesley Raymond and Barbara A. Fox

7. Multimodal noun phrases / Leelo Keevallik

8. Nouns and noun phrases in other-initiated repair in English atypical interaction: A case study of augmentative and alternative communication / Patricia Mayes

Part II. Languages from other parts of the world: 9. Multiple nominal expressions in Garrwa conversation / Ilana Mushin

10. The pragmatics of 'light nouns' in Besemah / Bradley McDonnell

11. NP clustering in Mandarin conversational interaction / Hongyin Tao

12. What can Japanese conversation tell us about 'NP'? / Tsuyoshi Ono and Sandra A. Thompson

13. Robust argument phrases (DPs) but unruly NPs in Maa / Doris L. Payne.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027261519

9027261512