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degruyter.de>Title: Noun Phrase Structure in the Languages of Europe Series Title: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology / Eurotyp Publication Year: 2003 Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter http://www.degruyter.de/hling.html Availability: Available Editor: Frans Plank, University of Konstanz Hardback: ISBN: 3110157489, Pages: xxi, 845, Price: Euro 228.00 / sFr 365,- / approx. US$ 22 Abstract: The result of over five years of close collaboration among an international group of leading typologists within the EUROTYP program, this volume is about the morphology and syntax of the noun phrase. Particular attention is paid to nominal inflectional categories and inflectional systems and to the syntax of determination, modification, and conjunction. Its areal focus, like that of other EUROTYP volumes, is on the languages of Europe; but in order to appreciate what is peculiarly European about their noun phrases, a more comprehensive and genuinely typological view is taken at the full range of cross-linguistic variation within this structural domain. There has been no shortage lately of contributions to the theory of noun phrase structure; the present volume is, however, unique in the extent to which its theorizing is empirically grounded. Contributors Abbreviations I. Introduction Frans Plank Noun phrase structure: an und fII. On inflection Aleksandr E. Kibrik Nominal inflection galore: Daghestanian, with side glances at Europe and the world Edith Moravcsik Inflectional morphology in the Hungarian noun phrase: A typological assessment Frans Plank The selective elaboration of nominal or pronominal inflection Greville G. Corbett Types of typology, illustrated from gender systems III. On (over-)determination Frans Plank Double articulation Edith Moravcsik Non-compositional definiteness marking in Hungarian noun phrases David Gil English goes Asian: Number and (in)definiteness in the Singlish noun phrase Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm A woman of sin, a man of duty, and a hell of a mess: Non-determiner genitives in Swedish IV. On amplification James R. Hurford The interaction between numerals and nouns Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm Possessive noun phrases in the languages of Europe Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm Action nominal constructions in the languages of Europe Leon Stassen Noun phrase conjunction: The coordinative and the comitative strategy Subject index Language index Author index Lingfield(s): Morphology Syntax Typology Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue