Oxford: Oxford University Press, Date: 2002. First printing. Paperback. Near Fine. First edition, 2002. Softcover, 419 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, a bit of rubbing to the tips of the covers. 2002. Oxford University Press ISBN 0199269645 9780199269648 [US]

ISBN10: 0199269645, ISBN13: 9780199269648, [publisher: OUP Oxford 2004-01] Softcover
[Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2004]

OUP Oxford 2004 Revised ed. Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 440 p. Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory.

OUP Oxford 2004 Revised ed. Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 440 p. Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory.

Oxford University Press, Date: 2004-03-11. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2004. Oxford University Press ISBN 0199269645 9780199269648 [US]

ISBN10: 0199269645, ISBN13: 9780199269648, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Softcover Paperback. This book investigates noun phrases in a representative sample of the world's 6,000 or so languages and proposes a semantic model to describe their underlying structure in any natural language. It examines the semantic and morpho-syntactic properties of the constituents of noun phrases. In doing so it shows that the noun phrase word order patterns of any human language can be derived from three universal ordering principles and, furthermore, that these are allelaborations of one general iconic principle according to which elements that belong together semantically tend to occur together syntactically. Professor Rijkhoff analyses the nounphrase as a semantic hierarchy which accommodates four noun modifiers relating to quality, quantity, location, and discourse. Noun phrases and sentences can be similarly analysed, he argues, because they have the same underlying semantic structure that accommodates the same kind of modifier categories. He introduces the notion of Seinsart or 'mode of being' as the nominal counterpart of Aktionsart 'mode of action' in verb semantics. He proposes a new grammatical category of nominal aspect andan implicational universal concerning the occurrence of adjectives as a major word class in the part-of-speech system of a language. The book is clearly organized, easilyaccessible, and assumes no knowledge of a ...

ISBN10: 0199269645, ISBN13: 9780199269648, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover
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