26.938, Books: Nominal Structures: All in Complex DPs: Veselovska, Janebova (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 14:48:15
From: Marketa Janebova [marketa.janebova at upol.cz]
Subject: Nominal Structures: All in Complex DPs: Veselovska, Janebova (eds.)

Title: Nominal Structures: All in Complex DPs 
Series Title: Olomouc Modern Language Monographs  

Publication Year: 2014 
Publisher: Department of English and American Studies, Palacky University, Olomouc
	   http://www.anglistika.upol.cz/veda_a_vyzkum/publikace.html

Book URL: http://olinco.upol.cz/assets/olinco-2013-monograph.pdf 

Editor: Ludmila Veselovska
Editor: Marketa Janebova

Electronic: ISBN:  9788024440897 Pages:  Price: ----  
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Abstract:

This monograph provides a collection of several empirical studies of nominal projections in a number of languages, mostly but not only Slavic, concentrating on the functional category domain that encompasses a noun phrase. The authors who are contributors to this volume have been inspired by their meeting at the OLINCO 2013 conference in Olomouc, Czech Republic, where they found out that their contributions share a similar theme – namely, an interest in the structure of nominal projections – its characteristics, properties and the properties of its parts.

The unifying theme of this monograph is the empirical linguistic analysis of nominal phrases and their parts. Compared with clausal structures, which, in spite of their language-specific realizations, are widely assumed to share the same basic general functional domains, the presence of grammatical categories accompanying the lexical noun is still assumed to be subject to fundamental cross-language variation. The variety concerns not only the overall structure but also the characteristics of individual functional elements which appear inside the nominal phrase. In spite of possible distinctions in individual analyses, all the discussions of the empirically attested phenomena in this monograph either assume or argue in favor of the presence of a functional domain above the nominal lexical head, which is equivalent to what is generally termed the English DP. The arguments in favor of such a “universal DP hypothesis” use a range of data and evidence in several linguistic domains.

The initial chapters in Section I: Introduction (Chapters 1 and 2) of this monograph concentrate principally on a general summary of arguments in favor of a generalized DP hypothesis. These chapters provide a kind of introduction to the topic, providing a list of the most frequent arguments and the characteristics of the surrounding discourse. The next large section is devoted to some specific properties of the elements which plausibly represent lexical entries in the functional domain of nominal projections. In Section II: Functional Heads (Chapters 3–8) the properties and distribution of specific lexical and grammatical elements – e.g., demonstratives, possessives, and quantifiers – are analyzed in detail, including from a diachronic perspective. The cross-linguistic and universal nature of these phenomena is supported by the relevant discussion of the quantifiers that are possible in non-Slavic Korean. In the final section, Section III: Left Periphery (Chapters 9–10), the 
 characteristics of the functional nominal domain are discussed, especially with respect to the transformations motivated by specific factors such as Information Structure. In this section the Slavic phenomena are compared with a parallel in Portuguese to show the general nature of the syntactic processes occurring inside nominal projections. 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Linguistic Theories

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Hakka (hak)
                     Croatian (hrv)
                     Czech (ces)
                     English (eng)
                     Korean (kor)
                     Polish (pol)
                     Portuguese (por)
                     Serbian (srp)
                     Slovenian (slv)

Language Family(ies): Slavic Subgroup

Written In: English  (eng)

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