Eva Berlage

Noun Phrase Complexity in English

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What makes the noun phrase 'the man I saw' more complex than 'the man'? Designed for researchers and students interested in questions of language complexity, this book aims to answer that question by exploring variation in more than three billion words of British and American data.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781108790420
• ISBN-10: 1108790429
• Artikelnr.: 58379435

Autorenporträt

Eva Berlage is Junior Professor of English Linguistics at Universität Hamburg.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The variationist framework
3. Methodology I: defining the syntactic complexity of NPs
4. Methodology II: modes of data presentation, statistical procedures and electronic corpora
5. Optional verb phrases in topic-restricting as far as constructions
6. Word order variation involving the collocations take prisoner, hold prisoner and take hostage, hold hostage
7. Word-order variation involving pre- and postposed notwithstanding
8. Infinitival variation following help
9. NP-complexity and change
10. Conclusion and future directions.