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OverviewThis book investigates noun phrases in a representative sample of the world's 6,000 or so languages and proposes a semantic model to describe their underlying structure in any natural language. It examines the semantic and morpho-syntactic properties of the constituents of noun phrases. In doing so it shows that the noun phrase word order patterns of any human language can be derived from three universal ordering principles and, furthermore, that these are all elaborations of one general iconic principle according to which elements that belong together semantically tend to occur together syntactically. Professor Rijkhoff analyses the noun phrase as a semantic hierarchy which accommodates four 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 that accommodates the same kind of modifier categories. He introduces the notion of Seinsart or 'mode of being' as the nominal counterpart of Aktionsart '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-speech system of a language. The book is clearly organized, easily accessible, and assumes no knowledge of a particular formal or functional theory. It will interest linguists and students of linguistics of all theoretical persuasions, as well as students of the cognitive sciences and anthropology. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jan Rijkhoff (, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Aarhus, Denmark)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 24.20cm Weight: 0.704kg ISBN: 9780198237822ISBN 10: 0198237820 Pages: 428 Publication Date: 25 July 2002 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: 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: EpilogueReviewshighly recommended * Linguist List * highly recommended Linguist List Author Information"Jan Rijkhoff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Upon gaining his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam (1992), he was appointed as a senior researcher at the same institution before going on to become Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Konstanz in Germany (1995). From 1990-5, Professor Rijkhoff was also a core member of Theme Group II (Constituent Order) in the European Science Foundation's 'Program in Language Typology ""EUROTYP""'." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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