Noun Phrase in the Generative Perspective

Download or read book Noun Phrase in the Generative Perspective written by Artemis Alexiadou and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying noun phrases and their syntax, the book offers a theoretically oriented, comparative study that examines basic aspects of noun projection. The discussion includes the following topics: The DP hypothesis, the status of D in languages without determiners, demonstratives, the role of classifiers, the morphosyntactic features/projections of nouns, head and phrasal movement in the noun phrase, adjectival modification, possessors, argument structure of nouns, the partitive construction and the N-of-an-N construction.