Noun Phrase in the Generative Perspective

By Artemis Alexiadou, Professor and Chair of the Institute of English Linguistics Artemis Alexiadou, Liliane Haegeman, Professor of English Linguistics Liliane Haegeman, Melita Stavrou

Noun Phrase in the Generative Perspective
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Surveying noun phrases and their syntax, the book offers a theoretically oriented, comparative studyin which theyexamine basic aspects of noun projection. The discussion includes the following topics: The DP hypothesis, the status of D in languages without determiners, demonstratives, the role of classifiers, the morphosyntactic features/projections of nouns, head and phrasal movement in the noun phrase, adjectival modification, possessors, argument structure of nouns, the partitive construction and the N-of-an-N construction. Key features Features basic knowledge for Students of Syntax State-of-the-Art description of one of the most debated topics in Theoretical Linguistics Famous authors