Lessons on the Noun Phrase in English: From Representation to Reference 9780773576438

While ordinary speakers - and some linguists - assume we have a mental dictionary stocked with words ready for use, Walt

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1 What We Are Going to Talk about and How
2 Substantive, Adjective and Adverb: The Theory of Incidence
3 Parts of Speech and the Word
4 Case and the Substantive
5 Number: Toward the System
6 Number: Testing for -ø Morpheme
7 Number: Testing for -s Morpheme
8 Gender in the Substantive
9 The Substantive
10 The System of the Articles
11 A vs. the in Discourse
12 Bare vs. Articled -s Substantives
13 Bare vs. Articled -ø Substantives
14 Any as a Quantifier
15 Some and the System
16 The Demonstratives
17 Determiners as Completive Pronouns
18 -’s Phrase
19 Suppletive Pronouns as Noun Phrase
20 Personal Pronouns and the Expression of Gender
21 The Noun Phrase and Person
22 Syntactic Function
23 Concluding Remarks
Postscript
Glossary
Notes
References
Index
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E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
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N
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Q
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