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Author: Eva Berlage
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-05
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 110701512X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat makes the noun phrase 'the man I saw' more complex than 'the man'? This book explores that question.
Author: Douglas Biber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-05-26
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 110700926X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing corpus-based analyses, the book challenges widely held beliefs about grammatical complexity, academic writing, and linguistic change in written English.
Author: Christina Willis Oko
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-08-26
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9004409491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Grammar of Darma provides a comprehensive description of this threatened Tibeto-Burman language spoken in India’s Himalayan region. The description is based on a corpus that includes natural discourse and elicited data. The analysis is informed by a functional-typological framework.
Author: Evelien Keizer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-08-09
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 1107320798
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnglish 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.
Author: Thomas Brunner
Publisher: ISSN
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783110516593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book is based on a detailed corpus-based investigation of the structure of noun phrases (NPs) in Singaporean English and Kenyan English with the aim of detecting, on the one hand, typological effects from substrate languages and, on the other hand, simplification patterns known to play a role in such varieties.
Author: Bas Aarts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-02-14
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 1107016355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume features new and groundbreaking research on recent changes in the English verb phrase.
Author: Arne Lohmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-12-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781108790871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on extensive corpus-based research, this book explores the nature and behavior of coordinate constructions in three case studies, covering order in copulative compounds, binomials (bare phrases), and more complex phrases. Historically, research on order in coordination has concentrated on so-called irreversible binomials, but Lohmann's research places significant focus on reversible ad hoc coordination and also presents a detailed comparison between irreversible and reversible binomials. This book uses empirical analyses to explore a wide range of factors, ranging from pragmatic to phonetic influences on the ordering process. It also offers readers a processing perspective on the results obtained, and puts forth a processing explanation for the characteristics of irreversible binomials. The book is ideal for researchers and advanced students working in English linguistics, syntax and psycholinguistics, and due to the multifactorial methodology applied it will be of particular interest to quantitatively minded corpus linguists.
Author: Professor of English Language and Linguistics Evelien Keizer
Publisher:
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9781107321922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 2007 study of noun phrases in English, looking at how we produce and understand them.
Author: Alex Ho-Cheong Leung
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2018-06-18
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9027264066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuilding on a substantial earlier literature, the chapters in this volume further advance knowledge and understanding of properties of the noun phrase in English. The empirical material for the papers includes both historical and present-day data, with the two often shedding light on each other in a process of mutual illumination. The topics addressed are: the structure of nounless NPs like the poor and the obvious; the article/zero alternation in expressions like go to (the) church; developments in the early history of adjective stacking; the semantics of N + clause units in present-day English; the history of N + BE + clause constructions; and the decline of two anaphoric NPs in Early Modern English. The volume will appeal to scholars working in this area and will also help those interested in the general field of English grammar to keep abreast of recent methods and results in NP-related work.
Author: Thomas Brunner
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-07-24
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 3110519542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book is based on a detailed corpus-based investigation of the structure of noun phrases (NPs) in Singaporean English and Kenyan English with the aim of detecting, on the one hand, typological effects from substrate languages and, on the other hand, simplification patterns known to play a role in such varieties.
