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Jan Rijkhoff investigates noun phrases--linguistic constructions with the noun as central element--in a representative sample of the world's 6000 languages and proposes a semantic model to describe their underlying structure. Assuming no knowledge of any formal or functional theory of grammar, he shows that the noun phrase word order patterns of any language can be derived from three universal ordering principles and furthermore that these principles are elaborations of a general ordering strategy, by which elements that ...

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The Noun Phrase 2004, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780199269648

Revised edition

Trade paperback

The Noun Phrase 2002, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198237822

Hardcover