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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Alexiadou, Artemis
• Haegeman, Liliane
• Stavrou, Melita

Titel

Noun Phrase in the Generative Perspective

Auflage

1. Aufl.

Ort / Verlag

Germany: De Gruyter

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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