From NP to DP (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027227764 ISBN 13: 9789027227768

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003

Synopsis

This is the first of a two-volume selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the international conference From NP to DP at the University of Antwerp. The papers address issues in the syntax and semantics of the noun phrase, in particular the so-called DP-hypothesis which takes noun phrases to be headed by a functional head D(eterminer). The major concerns can be grouped around 3 subthemes: the internal syntax of noun phrases, the syntax and semantics of bare nouns and indefinites and the expression of measurement in noun phrases. The wealth of data coming from over 40 different languages combined with a thorough introduction to the current issues in the field of NPs/DPs and some alternative syntactic and semantic analyses, provide a comprehensive reference work from both a descriptive and a theoretical point of view. The second volume is concerned exclusively with the expression of possession in noun phrases.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027227764
• ISBN 13: 9789027227768
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 365
• Editor: Coene Martine, D’hulst Yves