The Noun Phrase (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory)

by JanRijkhoff (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2002

  $246.36

  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.

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $59.70

  Investigates noun phrases in a representative sample of the world's 6,000 or so languages and proposes a semantic model to describe their underlying structure in any natural language. This book is of interest to linguists and students of linguistics of all theoretical persuasions, as well as students of the cognitive sciences and anthropology.