Article: Noun phrase in the generative perspective.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Possible and Probable Languages: A Generative ...
Reference & Research Book News;  February 1, 2006 ;     518 words ...0199274347 Possible and probable languages; a generative perspective on linguistic typology. Newmeyer, Frederick J. Oxford U. Press 2005 278 pages $39.95 Paperback P204 Newmeyer (linguistics ...

Article: Descriptive and discourse-referential modifiers in a layered ...
Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... modifiers in a layered model of the noun phrase can be divided into two major subcategories ... discourse-referential modifiers in the noun phrase are concerned with the status of entities ... layered, semantic structure of the noun phrase (Section 4), (ii) the special relationship ...

Article: Noun phrase elaboration in children's spoken ...
Language, Speech, & Hearing Services in Schools;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... One feature of literate language, noun phrase elaboration, was examined in the oral ... postmodification by all children at age 11. All noun phrase types were produced by more children ... are important developmental changes in noun phrase elaboration in the elementary school ...

Dictionary definition: noun phrase
The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar;      289 words ...noun phrase A word or group of words functioning in a sentence ... a noun, with a noun or pronoun as HEAD . A noun phrase (abbreviated NP ) can be a noun or pronoun ... Compare NOMINAL GROUP . See also INDEFINITE noun phrase .

Article: Noun phrase internal gender agreement in late old ...
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... current paper is on the phenomenon of noun phrase internal gender agreement, as observed ... English. The mechanisms of intra-noun-phrase gender agreement operating in "classical ... the current paper focuses on intra-noun-phrase gender miscongruence, its aim is far ...

Article: The noun phrase in ancient Greek; a functional ...
Reference & Research Book News;  November 1, 2009 ;     544 words ...9789004177222 The noun phrase in ancient Greek; a functional analysis ... articulation of the constituents in a noun phrase that determine its structure. Her ... of the many possible patterns of noun phrase in any particular situation or context ...

Article: The noun phrase structure in Nigerian ...
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... media, this study explains the grammatical/syntactic structure of the Noun Phrase in Nigerian English. Using a simple descriptive method, this paper discusses the Noun Phrase structure of Nigerian English from the perspective of accommodation ...