Jan Rijkhoff - The Noun Phrase

(p.i) THE NOUN PHRASE

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(p.iii) THE NOUN PHRASE

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This series offers a forum for original and accessible books on language typology and linguistic universals. Works published will be theoretically innovative and informed and will seek to link theory and empirical research in ways that are mutually productive. Each volume will also provide the reader with a wide rand cross-linguistic data. The series is open to typological work in semantics, syntax, phonology, and phonetics or at the interfaces between these fields.

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Intransitive Predication

by Leon Stassen

Classifiers: A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices

by Alexandra A. Aikhenvald

Anaphora

by Yan Huang

The Noun Phrase

by Jan Rijkhoff

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Double Object Constructions

by Maria Polinsky

The Paradigmatic Structure of Person Marking

by Michael Cysouw

Subordination

by Sonia Cristaforo

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1. 1.1. Parts-of-speech systems

2. 2.1. Cross-linguistic classification of major nominal subcategories

3. 3.1. Stages in the acquisition of class/gender or noun markers

4. 4.1. Parts-of-speech systems

5. 7.1. Tense

6. 7.2. Symmetry in the underlying structure of the clause and the NP

7. 7.3. The hierarchical structure of the NP

8. 9.1. Parts-of-speech systems

9. 9.2. Noun modifiers in the fifty-two-language sample and the VO/OV distinction

10. 11.1. Cross-linguistic classification of major nominal subcategories (or Seinsarten)

11. 11.2. The hierarchical structure of the NP

12. 11.3. The hierarchical structure of the clause (predication)

1. 1.1. Distribution of sample languages over (sub)phyla (Ruhlens classification)

2. 1.2. Sample languages and their locations

3. 1.3. Parts-of-speech systems of languages in the sample

4. 2.1. Nominal subcategories in sample languages: singular object nouns, set nouns, and sort nouns

5. 2.2. Shape and +Shape nominal subcategories

6. 2.3. Verbal categories

7. 3.1. Properties associated with prototypical exemplars of classifier and noun class systems

8. 3.2. Gender/number in Krongo

9. 3.3. Some declension classes in Latin

10. 4.1. Basic aspectual categories of the verb

11. 4.2. Languages with set nouns

12. 4.3. Adjective-noun order in languages of types 13: V/N/A, V-N/A, V-N-A

13. 4.4. Adjective-noun order in languages of intermediate type 3/4: V-N(-A)

14. 4.5. Parts-of-speech systems of languages in the sample

15. 5.1. Nominal subcategories and reduplication

16. 5.2. Noun-numeral constructions

17. 6.1. The expression of attributive demonstratives

18. 6.2. The expression of (in)definiteness

19. 6.3. Localizing satellites in the NP

20. 7.1. Basic aspectual categories of the verb

21. 7.2. Discourse operators and

22. 8.1. Some typological data of sample languages

23. 9.1. Classification of languages

24. 9.2. Exceptions to Hawkinss universals

25. 9.3. Dryers correlation pairs

26. 9.4. Dryers correlation pairs

27. 9.5. Word order data of sample languages (not included: Cayuga, Etruscan, Meroitic)

28. 9.6. The relation between the position of adjective, demonstrative, and numeral

29. 9.7. Basic word order and the position of the possessor pronoun relative to the noun

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30. 9.8. Possessor affixes and possessor NPs (G) in twenty languages

31. 9.9. Free possessor pronouns (g) and possessor NPs (G) in twenty-nine languages

32. 10.1. Constituent order in the simple NP

Examples from different languages are given in the transcription of the original source.

• :

  separates lexical and grammatical categories

• .

  separates grammatical categories

• =

  marks boundary between morpheme and clitic

• separates morphemes

• first person

• second person

• third person

• A

  adjective

• ABL

  ablative

• ABS

  absolutive

• ACC

  accusative

• ACT

  actual

• ActFoc

  actor focus

• ADV

  adverb

• ANAPH

  anaphoric pronoun

• anim

  animate

• ANPA

  anti-passive

• AOR

  aorist

• AP

  attributive particle

• ART

  article

• ASP

  aspect

• AUX

  auxiliary verb

• AUX1

  intransitive auxiliary

• AX

  affix

• BEN

  beneficiary

• C

  common gender

• CL

  class

• CLF

  classifier

• CN

  connector

• COLL

  collective

• COMP

  complementizer

• CONJ