Noun phrase, the
Auteur :
Rijkhoff, Jan
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780198237822
Date de publication :
25 juil. 2002
Dimensions :
24,2 x 16,3 x 2,9 cm
Poids :
704 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Investigating noun phrases - linguistic constructions with the noun as central element - in a representative sample of around 6000 languages, this book proposes a semantic model to describe their underlying structure. It shows that the noun phrase word order patterns of any language can be derived from three universal ordering principles.