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• 1. Introduction / Sandra A Thompson and Tsuyoshi Ono
• Part I. Languages from Europe : 2 The Finnish se että initiated expressions: NPs or not? / Karita Suomalainen, Anna Vatanen and Ritva Laury
• 3. Emergent complex noun phrases : On-line trajectories of 'relativized' NPs in French talk-in-interaction / Ioana-Maria Stoenica, Simona Pekarek Doehler and Anne-Sylvie Horlacher
• 4. The noun phrase as an emergent unit in Finnish / Marja-Liisa Helasvuo
• 5. Noun phrases in other-repetitions : Observations of Swedish talk-in interaction / Jan Lindström, Martina Huhtamäki and Anne-Marie Londen
• 6. Asserting no-problemness in Spanish : 'No hay (ningún) problema' and the study of noun phrases in interaction / Chase Wesley Raymond and Barbara A. Fox
• 7. Multimodal noun phrases / Leelo Keevallik
• 8. Nouns and noun phrases in other-initiated repair in English atypical interaction : A case study of augmentative and alternative communication / Patricia Mayes
• Part II. Languages from other parts of the world : 9. Multiple nominal expressions in Garrwa conversation / Ilana Mushin
• 10. The pragmatics of 'light nouns' in Besemah / Bradley McDonnell
• 11. NP clustering in Mandarin conversational interaction / Hongyin Tao
• 12. What can Japanese conversation tell us about 'NP'? / Tsuyoshi Ono and Sandra A. Thompson
• 13. Robust argument phrases (DPs) but unruly NPs in Maa / Doris L. Payne

The 'NP' is one of the least controversial grammatical units that linguists work with. The NP is often assumed to be universal, and appears to be robust cross-linguistically (compared to 'VP' or even 'clause') in that it can be manipulated in argument positions in constructed examples. Furthermore, for any given language, its internal structure (order and type of modifiers) tends to be relatively fixed. Surprisingly, however, the empirical basis for 'NP' has never been established. The chapters in this volume examine the NP in everyday interactions from diverse languages, including little-studied languages as well as better-researched ones, in a variety of interactional settings. Together, these chapters show that cross-linguistically, the category NP is not as robust as has been assumed: in the context of temporally unfolding human interaction, its structural status is constantly negotiated in terms of participants' evolving social agendas.
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• 1. Introduction / Sandra A Thompson and Tsuyoshi Ono
• Part I. Languages from Europe: 2 The Finnish se että initiated expressions: NPs or not? / Karita Suomalainen, Anna Vatanen and Ritva Laury
• 3. Emergent complex noun phrases: On-line trajectories of 'relativized' NPs in French talk-in-interaction / Ioana-Maria Stoenica, Simona Pekarek Doehler and Anne-Sylvie Horlacher
• 4. The noun phrase as an emergent unit in Finnish / Marja-Liisa Helasvuo
• 5. Noun phrases in other-repetitions: Observations of Swedish talk-in interaction / Jan Lindström, Martina Huhtamäki and Anne-Marie Londen
• 6. Asserting no-problemness in Spanish: 'No hay (ningún) problema' and the study of noun phrases in interaction / Chase Wesley Raymond and Barbara A. Fox
• 7. Multimodal noun phrases / Leelo Keevallik
• 8. Nouns and noun phrases in other-initiated repair in English atypical interaction: A case study of augmentative and alternative communication / Patricia Mayes
• Part II. Languages from other parts of the world: 9. Multiple nominal expressions in Garrwa conversation / Ilana Mushin
• 10. The pragmatics of 'light nouns' in Besemah / Bradley McDonnell
• 11. NP clustering in Mandarin conversational interaction / Hongyin Tao
• 12. What can Japanese conversation tell us about 'NP'? / Tsuyoshi Ono and Sandra A. Thompson
• 13. Robust argument phrases (DPs) but unruly NPs in Maa / Doris L. Payne.

The 'NP' is one of the least controversial grammatical units that linguists work with. The NP is often assumed to be universal, and appears to be robust cross-linguistically (compared to 'VP' or even 'clause') in that it can be manipulated in argument positions in constructed examples. Furthermore, for any given language, its internal structure (order and type of modifiers) tends to be relatively fixed. Surprisingly, however, the empirical basis for 'NP' has never been established. The chapters in this volume examine the NP in everyday interactions from diverse languages, including little-studied languages as well as better-researched ones, in a variety of interactional settings. Together, these chapters show that cross-linguistically, the category NP is not as robust as has been assumed: in the context of temporally unfolding human interaction, its structural status is constantly negotiated in terms of participants' evolving social agendas.
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• Contents Acknowledgements Biographies Introduction Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and Anne Zribi-Hertz
• part 1: Noun Phrase Syntax and Interpretation: In Search of Crosslinguistic Regularities Information Structure and (In)definiteness Nomi Erteschik-Shir On Number and Numberlessness in Languages with and without Articles Asya Pereltsvaig The Cognitive Basis of the Mass-Count Distinction: Evidence from Bare Nouns Edit Doron and Ana Muller The Turkish NP Zeljko Boskovic and Serkan Sener
• part 2: Definiteness and Definiteness Markers across Languages The Morphology, Syntax and Semantics of Definite Determiners in Swiss German Rebekka Studler Reduced Definite Articles with Restrictive Relative Clauses Patricia Cabredo Hofherr When Determiners Abound: Implications for the Encoding of Definiteness Marika Lekakou and Kriszta Szendroi The Semantics and Syntax of Japanese Adnominal Demonstratives Makoto Kaneko From Noun to Name: On Definiteness Marking in Modern Martinike Anne Zribi-Hertz and Loic Jean-Louis Reference Resolution in French Sign Language: The Effects of the Visuo-Gestual Modality Brigitte Garcia and Marie-Anne Sallandre
• part 3: Noun Phrase Interpretation and Second-Language Acquisition When Articles Have Different Meanings: Acquiring the Expression of Genericity in English and Brazilian Portuguese Tania Ionin, Elaine Grolla, Silvina Montrul and Helade Santos Index.
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Crosslinguistic Studies on Noun Phrase Structure and Reference contains 11 studies on the grammar of noun phrases. Part One explores NP-structure and the impact of information structure, countability and number marking on interpretation, using data from Russian, Armenian, Hebrew, Brazilian Portuguese, Karitiana, Turkish, English, Catalan and Danish. Part Two examines language specific definiteness marking strategies in spoken and signed languages-differentiated definiteness marking in Germanic, double definiteness in Greek, adnominal demonstratives in Japanese, `weak' definiteness in Martinike and the special referring options made avilable by signing. Part Three examines the second-language acquisition of genericity in English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in syntax, formal semantics, and language acquisition. Contributors include: Zeljko Boskovic, Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Edit Doron, Nomi Erteschik Shir, Brigitte Garcia, Elaine Grolla, Tania Ionin, Loic Jean-Louis, Makoto Kaneko, Marika Lekakou, Silvina Montrul, Ana Muller, Asya Pereltsvaig, Marie-Anne Sallandre, Helade Santos, Serkan Sener, Rebekka Studler, Kriszta Szendroei, Anne Zribi-Hertz.
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• List of contributors
• 1. Introduction Norman M. Fraser, Greville G. Corbett and Scott McGlashan
• 2. The head of Russian numeral expressions Greville G. Corbett
• 3. The phonology of heads in Haruai Bernard Comrie
• 4. Patterns of headedness Ronnie Cann
• 5. Head-hunting on the trail of the nominal Janus Andrew Radford
• 6. The headedness of noun-phrases: slaying the nominal hydra John Payne
• 7. Head- versus dependent-marking: the case of the clause Nigel Vincent
• 8. Heads in discourse: structural versus functional centricity Johanna Nichols
• 9. Heads in head-driven phrase structure grammar Robert D. Borsley
• 10. Heads and lexical semantics Scott McGlashan
• 11. Heads, parsing and word-order universals John A. Hawkins
• 12. Do we have heads in our minds? Richard A. Hudson
• 13. Heads, bases and functors Arnold M. Zwicky
• References
• Index.
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Contemporary linguistic theories distinguish the principal element of a phrase - the 'head' - from the subordinate elements it dominates. This pervasive grammatical concept has been used to describe and account for linguistic phenomena ranging from agreement and government to word order universals, but opinions differ widely on its precise definition. A key question is whether the head is not already identified by some other, more basic notion or interacting set of notions in linguistics. Heads in Grammatical Theory is the first book devoted to the subject. Providing a clear view of current research on heads, some of the foremost linguists in the field tackle the problems set by the assumptions of particular grammatical theories and offer insights which have relevance across theories. Questions considered include whether there is a theory-neutral definition of head, whether heads have cognitive reality, how to identify the head of a phrase, and whether there are any universal correlations between headedness and deletability.
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• Préface / Florence Lefeuvre, Irmtraud Behr
• L'énoncé averbal : repérage et subjectivité / Jacqueline Guillemin-Flescher
• Etre ou ne pas être : prédication averbale et localisation spatio-temporelle en hongrois / Zsuzsanna Gécseg
• Analyse des énoncés averbaux prédicatifs autonomes / Frédéric Laurens
• Existe-t-il un "impératif averbal" en français ? / Henri-José Deulofeu
• Diptyques introduits par des énonciations nominales / Gilles Corminboeuf
• Enoncés sans verbe en français parlé : un modèle à deux composantes / Claire Blanche-Benveniste
• Zidane, qui passe à Sganarelle, qui lance à Platini, qui n'a pas vu Géronte... Ou comment des noms propres deviennent phrases averbales / Mustapha Krazem
• Existe-t-il des constructions averbales ? Le cas des énoncés évaluatifs avec adjectif de type "Great !" en anglais / Catherine Chauvin
• Le statut prédicatif du marqueur de négation non en discours / Françoise Mignon
• Bon à l'oral : une unité averbale autonome / Florence Lefeuvre
• Phrase averbale et presse écrite : le cas des constructions en [UN + N + expansion] / Yana Grinshpun
• Les fonctionnements du GP à partir de là entre grammaticalisation et pragmaticalisation / Sophie-Anne Brault-Scappini, Sandra Teston-Bonnard
• Les segments averbaux comme unités syntaxiques à l'oral / Noalig Tanguy
• Étude d'énoncé averbal à un terme : entre grammaire et discours / Irmtraud Behr
• Énoncés averbaux en série - des segments narratifs spécifiques / Angelika Redder.

"Ce recueil interroge les grammaires de l'écrit et de l'oral sur leur conception des unités syntaxiques autonomes, que celles-ci soient appelées phrases, énoncés, clauses. Acceptent-elles, outre les unités syntaxiques basées sur le verbe conjugué, d'autres types d'unités, cette fois basées sur un segment averbal tel que Incroyable ? L'objectif de cet ouvrage est d'examiner le lien entre le cadre grammatical adopté et l'analyse en discours de ces unités averbales autonomes. Divers types de discours sont examinés, le discours littéraire, celui de la presse, et également le discours oral qui fait l'objet des recherches les plus récentes. Cet ouvrage s'adresse aux chercheurs, enseignants, étudiants ainsi qu'à tous ceux qui souhaitent approfondir leurs connaissances sur la phrase sans verbe considérée en discours."--P. [4] of cover.

• Prototypical and non-prototypical noun phrases in functional discourse grammar / Kees Hengeveld
• Layers, levels and contexts in functional discourse grammar / Jan Rijkhoff
• On noun phrase structure in functional (discourse) grammar / José Luis González Escribano
• Reference and ascription in functional discourse grammar / Evelien Keizer
• Interpersonal meaning in the noun phrase / Christopher S. Butler
• Freestanding noun phrases within documents / John H. Connolly
• Agreement in the noun phrase / Dik Bakker and Roland Pfau
• Functional discourse grammar and extraction from (complex) noun phrases / Daniel García Velasco.

This volume contains a collection of studies that analyse the noun phrase within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), the newest version of Functional Grammar as originally developed by Simon C. Dik. The contributions examine the noun phrase from a typological, semantic, interpersonal, morphosyntactic, logical and textual perspective, offering new findings and important insights that are relevant for linguists of any theoretical persuasion.
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• Acknowledgements.Reading this book at different levels.Introduction
• .1. Numerical Adjectives and the Type of Sets
• .2. The Adjectival Theory of Indefinite Predicates and Arguments
• .3. The Variable Constraint on Predicates and There-Insertion Subjects
• .4. Problems for Weak-Strong Analyses of There-Insertion Subjects
• .5. There-Insertion Subjects as Subjects Adjoined to Verb Phrases
• .6. There-Insertion Subjects Adjoined to Saturated Predicates
• .7. Some Questions about There-Insertion in Dutch
• .8. The Problem of Negative Noun Phrases
• .9. Relational Indefinites and Semantic Incorporation
• .10. Definite Time-Adverbials and Event Measures
• .11. Indefinite Time-Adverbials and the Counting-Grid.References.Index.
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"Indefinites and the Type of Sets" explores a new theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness effects. The book provides an introduction to aspects of the semantics of noun phrases, as well as comparing alternate theories; and, explores a new theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness effects. It is written accessibly by one of the world's most prominent formal semanticists. The book is useful for students and scholars in formal semantics as well as the neighboring fields of syntax, pragmatics, and the philosophy of language.
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Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.
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The goal of this book is twofold. On the one hand we want to offer a discussion of some of the more important properties of the nominal projection, on the other hand we want to provide the reader with tools for syntactic analysis which apply to the structure of DP but which are also relevant for other domains of syntax. In order to achieve this dual goal we will discuss phenomena which are related to the nominal projection in relation to other syntactic phenomena (e.g. pro drop will be related to N-ellipsis, the classification of pronouns will be applied to the syntax of possessive pronouns, N-movement will be compared to V-movement, the syntax of the genitive construction will be related to that of predicate inversion etc.). In the various chapters we will show how recent theoretical proposals (distributed morphology, anti-symmetry, checking theory) can cast light on aspects of the syntax of the NP. When necessary, we will provide a brief introduction of these theoretical proposals. We will also indicate problems with these analyses, whether they be inherent to the theories as such (e.g. what is the trigger for movement in antisymmetric approaches) or to the particular instantiations. The book cannot and will not provide the definitive analysis of the syntax of noun phrases. We consider that this would not be possible, given the current flux in generative syntax, with many new theoretical proposals being developed and explored, but the book aims at giving the reader the tools with which to conduct research and to evaluate proposals in the literature. In the discussion of various issues, we will apply the framework that is most adequate to deal with problems at hand. We will therefore not necessarily use the same approach throughout the discussion. Though proposals in the literature will be referred to when relevant, we cannot attempt to provide a critical survey of the literature. We feel that such a survey would be guided too strongly by theoretical choices, which would not be compatible with the pedagogical purposes this book has. The book is comparative in its approach, and data from different languages will be examined, including English, German, Dutch (West-Flemish), Greek, Romance, Semitic, Slavic, Albanian, Hungarian, Gungbe.
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These two volumes on Non-nominative Subjects (NNSs) present the most recent research on this topic from a wide range of languages from diverse language families of the world, with ample data and in-depth analysis. A significant feature of these volumes is that authors with different theoretical perspectives study the intricate questions raised by these constructions. Some of the central issues include the subject properties of noun phrases with ergative, dative, accusative and genitive case, case assignment and checking, anaphor-antecedent coreference, the nature of predicates with NNSs, whether they are volitional or non-volitional, possibilities of control coreference and agreement phenomena. These analyses have significant implications for theories of syntax and verbal semantics, first language acquisition of NNSs, convergence of case marking patterns in language contact situations, and the nature of syntactic change.
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• 1. 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. Epilogue.
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This 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.
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