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This text is a case study on the grammar of third person references in two genres of spoken Ecuadorian Spanish. It examines how genre affects linguisitic patterns and how researchers can look for, and interpret, genre effects. It explores referentiality, genre differences, third…
Defining and exploring binomials / Joanna Kopaczyk and Hans Sauer -- Old English. Pragmatic and stylistic functions of binomials in Old English / R.D. Fulk -- Fixity and flexibility in Wulfstan's binomials / Don Chapman -- Binomials, word pairs and variation as a feature of styl…
This book contains 11 studies on the grammar of noun phrases. Part One explores NP-structure and the impact of information structure, countability and number marking on interpretation, using data from Russian, Armenian, Hebrew, Brazilian Portuguese, Karitiana, Turkish, English, …
The book is based on a detailed corpus-based investigation of the structure of noun phrases (NPs) in Singaporean English and Kenyan English with the aim of detecting, on the one hand, typological effects from substrate languages and, on the other hand, simplification patterns kn…
"Over the last decades, it has been hotly debated whether and how compounds, i.e. word-formations, and phrases differ from each other. The book discusses this issue by investigating compounds and phrases from a structural, semantic-functional and, crucially, cognitive perspectiv…
The Noun Phrase in English: past and present
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"Building on a substantial earlier literature, the chapters in this volume further advance knowledge and understanding of properties of the noun phrase in English. The empirical material for the papers includes both historical and present-day data, with the two often shedding li…
The book investigates pathways of (inter)subjectification followed by prenominal elements in the English Noun Phrase, by tracing the development of identifying, noun-intensifying and subjective compound uses. By means of in-depth corpus study, the assumed unidirectionality of (i…