The English Noun Phrase The Nature of Linguistic Categorization Studies in English Language 1st Edition by Evelien Keizer ISBN 978-0521849616 0521849616
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ISBN 10: 0521849616
ISBN 13: 978-0521849616
Author: Evelien Keizer
English has an interesting variety of noun phrases, which differ greatly in structure. Examples are ‘binominal’ (two-noun) phrases (‘a beast of a party’); possessive constructions (‘the author’s opinion’); and discontinuous noun phrases (‘the review [came out yesterday] of his book’). How are these different noun phrases structured? How do we produce and understand them? These questions are central to this study, which explores the interaction between the form of noun phrases, their meaning, and their use. It shows how, despite the need in linguistic analysis for strict categories, many linguistic constructions in fact defy straightforward classification – and concludes that in order to fully explain the internal structure of utterances, we must first consider the communicative, pragmatic and cognitive factors that come into play. Drawing on a range of authentic examples, this book sheds light not only on the noun phrase itself but also the nature of linguistic classification.
Table of contents:
PART I: The structural approach: possibilities and limitations
2 Headedness within the NP
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Internal structure: headedness within the NP
2.2.1 Semantic criteria
2.2.2 (Morpho)syntactic criteria
2.2.3 Discourse factors
2.3 Conclusion
3 Close appositions
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Criteria from previous analyses
3.2.1 Introduction
3.2.2 Intonation and form of the elements
3.2.3 Headedness and syntactic omissibility
3.2.4 Reference and semantic omissibility
3.2.5 Order of the elements
3.2.6 Modified definition and preliminary analysis
3.3 Further evidence
3.3.1 Definiteness
3.3.2 Anaphoric relations
3.3.3 Headedness
3.3.4 Summary: underlying representations
3.4 Conclusion
4 Appositions with of
4.1 Introduction
4.2 of-constructions with referring embedded NPs
4.2.1 NPs with of-modifiers and of-complements
4.2.2 Partitive NPs
4.3 of-constructions with non-referring embedded NPs: qualifying of-constructions
4.4 of-appositions
4.4.1 The form of of-appositions
4.4.2 Headedness
4.4.3 Underlying representation
4.5 Conclusion
5 Binominals
5.1 Introduction
5.2 General characterization
5.2.1 Semantic features
5.2.2 Syntactic and formal features
5.3 Headedness
5.3.1 Introduction
5.3.2 Semantic criteria
5-3-3 Syntactic criteria
5-3-4 Pragmatic criteria
5-3-5 Additional evidence
5.4 Conclusion
6 Pseudo-partitive constructions
6.1 Introduction
6.2 General characterization
6.3 Types of pseudo-partitive constructions
6.3.1 Quantifier nouns
6.3.2 Measure nouns
6.3.3 Container nouns
6.3.4 Part nouns
6.3.5 Collection nouns
6.4 Headedness
6.4.1 Existing analyses
6.4.2 Semantic criteria
6.4.3 Syntactic criteria
6.4.4 Pragmatic criteria
6.4.5 Additional properties
6.5 Conclusion
7 Sort/kind/type-constructions
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Analysis: preliminary characterization
7.2.1 Type I: the referential SKT-construction
7.2.2 Type II: the qualifying construction
7.2.3 Type III: constructions of the third kind
7.3 Type I: the referential SKT-construction
7.3.1 Semantic characterization
7.3.2 Discourse properties
7-3-3 Syntactic/formal properties
7.3.4 Underlying representation
7.4 Type II: the qualifying construction
7.4.1 Semantic characterization
7.4.2 Discourse properties
7.4.3 Syntactic/formal properties
7.4.4 Underlying representation
7-5 Type III: constructions of the third kind
7.5.1 The postdeterminer analysis
7.5.2 Problematic cases: the sort/kind/type of + N2plur
7-5-3 Conventionalized referential constructions
7.6 Conclusion
8 Conclusion
PART II: The cognitive-pragmatic approach: some applications
9 The flexibility of language
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Pragmatics
9.2.1 Information structure
9.2.2 Given and new
9.2.3 Topic: D-topic, S-topic and G-topic
9.2.4 Focus
9.2.5 Conclusion
9.3 Cognition
9.3.1 Introduction
9.3.2 Prototype theory
9.3.3 Activation
9.4 Conclusion
10 Complements and modifiers
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Some existing proposals
10.2.1 Introduction
10.2.2 Relational versus non-relational nouns
10.2.3 Complements versus modifiers
10.2.4 Conclusion
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10.3 A cognitive approach to noun frames
10.3.1 Introduction
10.3.2 The ‘conceptual perspective’
10.3.3 The network approach
10.3.4 Prototype effects
10.3.5 Some examples
10.3.6 Relational nouns and definiteness revisited
10.4 Conclusion
II Discontinuous NPs
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Theoretical background
11.2.1 Syntax and semantics: restrictions on extraposition
11.2.2 Processing and pragmatics: principles and preferences
11.2.3 Multifunctional theories of word order: interacting principles
11.2.4 The multifactor hypothesis
11.3 Some existing accounts of extraposition
11.3.1 Presentation versus predication: Guéron (1980)
11.3.2 Complexity: Hawkins (1994)
11.4 A multifunctional approach: examples from the corpus
11.4.1 Introduction
11.4.2 Displacement from NP into clause-final position
11.4.3 Displacement within NP: complement-modifier switch
11.5 Conclusion
Possessive constructions: the author’s opinion versus the opinion of the author
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Traditional accounts: interacting principles
12.2.1 Some absolute constraints
12.2.2 Preferences and tendencies
12.2.3 Conclusion
12.3 Theoretical and experimental approaches:
the single-factor approach versus the multifactor approach
12.3.1 The single-factor approach
12.3.2 Interactive principles: Rosenbach (2002)
12.4 The present study
12.4.1 The difference between prenominal and postnominal possessives
12.4.2 Prenominal possessives
12.4.3 Postnominal of-constructions
12.5 Conclusion
13 Conclusions
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