...Number agreement in noun phrases (NP) is a widely studied variable in Brazilian Portuguese, especially in terms of its correlations with level of education and social class. However, it has never been looked at in terms of sexuality. Inspired by production analyses that suggest that effeminate...

... material in the vp to allow the explicit quantified noun phrase (qnp) to function as a first-order quantifier. Quine W V O Castañeda H N Chierchia G Frege G he Kaplan D Peacocke C Larson R Ludlow P Parsons T Partee B Stojanovic I den Dikken M Harley H Splash! whale watching...

... sentences to singular group action sentences. It shows further that the ambiguity is not plausibly attributed to lexical ambiguity in either the noun phrase or verb phrase in singular group action sentences. Next, it shows that the reason that some singular group action sentences appear to have only...

...It has been widely assumed that noun phrases in Chinese and Japanese are similar in structure. They are N-final in surface word order, they employ “modifying markers” (de in Chinese and no in Japanese) extensively, and they require classifiers for numeral...

... and, by doing so, to make original contributions to syntactic theory. The first three chapters examine the noun phrase structures in Chinese and Japanese and try to attribute their differences to the head parameter while accounting for their similarities at the same time. The next two chapters take up ellipsis...

...This chapter examines how focus status and semantic overlap between an anaphor and its antecedent interact by focusing on the behavior of full noun phrase anaphors in discourse contexts. It looks at the Informational Load Hypothesis, which predicts a tradeoff between the semantic overlap...

... in non-standard varieties of English and English-based pidgins and creoles. It focuses on grammaticalization phenomena found in the domain of the noun phrase, an area of English grammar which has received less attention in the typological and dialectological literature on grammaticalization. The article...

... phrase structure and word order, the syntax of the noun phrase, subjects and subject agreement, negation, long A’-dependencies, and wh-in situ constructions. Benmamoun E clitic left Standard Arabic syntax Arabian and North Arabian dialects listing phrase structure and word order verbless sentences...

...This chapter examines variation within the noun phrase from the perspective of efficiency. Two processing axioms are proposed. The Axiom of Constructability states that there will be at least one word of category C dominated by a phrasal node P that can construct P on every occasion of use. Hence...

... of relativizable syntactic positions (or in terms of the Noun Phrase Accessibility). Appositive clauses (or noun complement clauses) are characterized in contrast with relative clauses, particularly focusing on a difference in structure. These languages also have internally headed relative clauses. This chapter...

... the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia, we do find the order of elements in the NP, and the position of final particles indicating negation or questions, conforming to New Guinea norms. adpositions clauses content questions harmony modifiers noun phrases numeral modifiers object s...

...Noun phrases like the number of people that can fit into the bus or the book John needs to write are an extremely puzzling linguistic phenomenon. This chapter argues that such noun phrases stand for objects, namely variable objects, entities that have different...

...This book examines the grammatical changes that took place in the transition from Latin to the Romance languages. The emerging language underwent changes in three fundamental areas involving the noun phrase, verb phrase, and the sentence. The impact of the changes can be seen in the reduction...

.... Plural reflexive pronouns Table 3.6. Singular reflexive pronouns There are two distinct syntactic agreement domains in Archi, the noun phrase and the clause, each presenting different challenges for an account of the mechanisms underlying their behaviour. Within the noun phrase, modifiers can exhibit...

...A Guide to Old Spanish. First edition. Steven N. Dworkin.© Steven N. Dworkin 2018. First published 2018 by Oxford University Press. This chapter describes selected issues of noun phrase, verb phrase, and sentential syntax. It emphasizes differences between the selected...

...This chapter looks at noun class and gender systems that are somehow relevant for the proper expression (morphology, syntax, phonology) of noun phrases (NPs) and sentences. The reflection of real and apparent nominal subclasses outside or inside the noun phrase is discussed, along with certain...

...This chapter discusses elements that relate to the notion quality in that they specify inherent features of the referent. Cross-linguistically, there are two categories that pertain to such features in the noun phrase (aside from the head noun). One concerns certain dimensional (spatial) features...

.... This principle predicts — implicitly — that constituents that are in the scope of a certain modifier (that is, elements that are part of the same layer in the underlying noun phrase structure) are expressed in a continuous sequence. It also predicts — explicitly — that operators and satellites occur immediately...