by JanRijkhoff (Author)
Investigating noun phrases - linguistic constructions with the noun as central element - in a representative sample of around 6000 languages, this book proposes a semantic model to describe their underlying structure. It shows that the noun phrase word order patterns of any language can be derived from three universal ordering principles.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 25 Jul 2002
ISBN 10: 0198237820
ISBN 13: 9780198237822