Simplicity and Typological Effects in the Emergence of New Englishes: The Noun Phrase in Singaporean and Kenyan English 9783110521801, 9783110516593

Simplicity and Typological Effects in the Emergence of New Englishes: The Noun Phrase in Singaporean and Kenyan English 9783110521801, 9783110516593

The book is based on a detailed corpus-based investigation of the structure of noun phrases (NPs) in Singaporean English

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The Directionality of (Inter)subjectification in the English Noun Phrase: Pathways of Change 9783110338751, 9783110318579

The book investigates pathways of (inter)subjectification followed by prenominal elements in the English Noun Phrase, by

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The Directionality of (Inter)subjectification in the English Noun Phrase: Pathways of Change 9783110338751, 9783110318579

The book investigates pathways of (inter)subjectification followed by prenominal elements in the English Noun Phrase, by

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Typological Changes in the Lexicon: Analytic Tendencies in English Noun Formation 9783110238211, 9783110238204

This is the first study of the typological change of English from a synthetic towards an analytic language that focuses

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Noun Phrase in the Generative Perspective 9783110207491, 9783110176841

The goal of this book is twofold. On the one hand we want to offer a discussion of some of the more important properties

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The Noun Phrase in Functional Discourse Grammar 9783110205374, 9783110198676

The articles in this volume analyse the noun phrase within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), the succ

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Article and Noun in English 9783110878455, 9789027921499

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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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Crosslinguistic Studies on Noun Phrase Structure and Reference 900426082X, 9789004260825

Crosslinguistic Studies on Noun Phrase Structure and Reference contains 11 studies on the grammar of noun phrases. Part

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Null Subjects in Englishes: A Comparison of British English and Asian Englishes 9783110649260, 9783110633436

Winner of the Hermann Paul Award This book presents the first systematic quantitative study of null subjects not only

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