Eva Berlage

Noun Phrase Complexity in English

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What makes the noun phrase 'the man I saw' more complex than 'the man'? This book explores that question.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9781107015128
• ISBN-10: 110701512X
• Artikelnr.: 40561330

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.