The 'noun phrase' across languages : an emergent unit in interaction /

The 'noun phrase' across languages : an emergent unit in interaction /

"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...

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Other Authors: Ono, Tsuyoshi (Editor), Thompson, Sandra A. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020.
Edition:Book edition.
Series:Typological studies in language, volume 128
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Noun phrase.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of 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.

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