New book 'The Noun Phrase'

[Jan Rijkhoff]

(Apologies for cross-postings)

New Publication by Oxford University Press

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J. Rijkhoff

The Noun Phrase

2002. 234mm x 156mm. XIII + 413 pages.

Hardback £57.50 / US$ 90.00

ISBN 0-19-823782-0

(Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory)

A sample of this book is available in PDF format at:
 http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-823782-0

DESCRIPTION (from the jacket):
"The book presents a semantic model to describe the underlying structure of
noun phrases in any natural human language. It examines the semantic and
morpho-syntactic properties of the constituents of the noun phrase in a
representative sample of the world's 6000 or so languages and shows that
noun phrase word order patterns of any language can be derived from three
universal ordering principles."

"Rijkhoff analyses the noun phrase as a structure that consists of four
nested layers, which accommodate noun modifiers relating to quality,
quantity, location, and discourse. Noun phrases and sentences can be
similarly analysed, he argues, because they have the same underlying
semantic structure. He introduces the notion of Seinsart or 'mode of being'
as the nominal counterpart of 'mode of action' in verb semantics. He
proposes a new grammatical category of nominal aspect and an implicational
universal concerning the occurrence of adjectives as a major word class in
the part-of-spech system of a language."

CONTENTS:
  1. Preliminaries
  2. Nominal Subcategories: Seinsarten
  3. Nouns: Real and Apparent Nominal Subclasses
  4. Qualifying Modifiers in the Noun Phrase
  5. Quantifying Modifiers in the Noun Phrase
  6. Localizing Modifiers in the Noun Phrase
  7. The Underlying Structure of Noun Phrases
  8. Ordering Principles, Domain Integrity, and Discontinuity
  9. Greenbergian Word Order Correlations and the Principle of
        Head Proximity
 10. The Principle of Scope
 11. Epilogue
     References
     Index of Subjects
     Index of Languages
     Index of Authors


Jan Rijkhoff, Institut for Lingvistik, Aarhus Universitet
Jens Chr. Skous Vej 7 (467-517), DK-8000  Aarhus C, DENMARK
Phone (+45) 8942 6550 * Fax (+45) 8942 6570 * E-mail linjr at hum.au.dk
http://www.hum.au.dk/lingvist/linjr/home.htm
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