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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.
Info autore
Liliane Haegeman is Professor of English Linguistics at Université Charles de Gaulle Lille 3. .
Riassunto
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.
Relazione
"Alles in allem handelt es sich aber um ein eindrucksvolles Buch, das wohl bald den Status eines Referenzwerkes für zukünftige Behandlungen des Themas erlangen wird. Wenn man es von Anfang bis Ende durcharbeitet, wird man mit einer Fülle spannender Einsichten belohnt, die von hoher Relevanz für die linguistische Theoriebildung sind. Es ist ein anspruchsvolles und durchaus schwierieges Buch, das jeder Generativist, gleich ob syntaktisch oder semantisch interessiert, letztlich mit Gewinn lesen wird, und das als State-of-the-Art-Bericht daher in keinem universitären Bücherschrank fehlen sollte."
Holden Härtl in: Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft 1/2009
"[...] Noun phrase in the generative perspective is an extremely useful book and a very welcome attempt to collect, compare and integrate in a single work a number of analyses dispersed across the literature over the last forty years. Among its merits and its coverage, the clarity of its writing and the way in which the authors have managed the difficult task of creating connections between the various sections - no small feat by far for such a diverse and complex domain."
Roberto Zamparelli in: Journal of Linguistics, 2008
"Hier ist etwas sehr Inhaltreiches und Erschöpfendes gelungen."
Werner Abraham in: Germanistik 3-4/2007
