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English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective
Current issues
Despite a significant increase in interest over the last two decades in the English Noun Phrase, there are still many open questions and unexplored issues. The papers collected in this volume contribute to this ongoing research by addressing a range of topics concerning the internal structure, use and development of English Noun Phrases. The eleven chapters represent three main themes: 1. Determination, modification and complementation; 2. Shell nouns and the X-is construction; 3. Binominal constructions. These topics are approached in different ways: some chapters are synchronic in nature, others diachronic; and while most subscribe to functional-cognitive modelling, some take a more formal approach. In addition, different methodologies are employed, varying from qualitative and quantitative corpus analyses to experimental methods. As a result, the contributions to this volume represent both the main topics currently discussed in research on the English Noun Phrase, and the diversity in the way these topics are investigated.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 221] 2022. vii, 433 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 3 January 2022
Published online on 3 January 2022
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. vii–viii
- Major trends in research on the English NPEvelien Keizer and Lotte Sommerer | pp. 1–24
- Determination, modification & complementation
- Refining and re-defining secondary determiners in relation to primary determinersKristin Davidse | pp. 27–78
- The rivalry between definiteness and specificity: The grammaticalization of definiteness in DP emergenceFuyo Osawa | pp. 79–106
- Post-head compression in noun phrase referring expressions: Structural change in interactive communicationRahel Oppliger | pp. 107–134
- From noun to verb: Modeling variation in the English gerund systemCharlotte Maekelberghe | pp. 135–168
- Shell nouns & the X-is construction
- Shell nouns as epistemic stance devices in English: A study of four epistemic modal nouns and four evidential nounsMarta Carretero | pp. 171–204
- Constructional variation and change in N-is focaliser constructionsMarianne Hundt | pp. 205–234
- Premodification in X-is constructions: Fact and pointEvelien Keizer | pp. 235–276
- 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 beyondElnora ten Wolde | pp. 279–310
- Time-measurement constructions in English: A corpus-based explorationMelanie J. Bell and Carmen Portero Muñoz | pp. 311–362
- Day to day and night after night: Temporal NPN constructions in Present Day EnglishLotte Sommerer | pp. 363–394
- Coordinated phrases as dvandvas: A competition-theoretic perspectiveKazuya Nishimaki | pp. 395–428
- Index | pp. 429–433
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