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Noun phrases without nouns

Functions of Language, 2004
In this paper, I investigate the theoretical status of noun phrases without nouns, i.e. noun phrases that do not contain a noun or pronoun, but only words that otherwise occur as modifiers of nouns. I investigate six possible analyses for such noun phrases: (1) that they are elliptical, (2) that the apparent modifiers are nouns, (3) that the apparent ...
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Nouns and noun phrases

1988
Nouns The general term ‘noun’ is applied to a grammatically distinct word class in a language having the following properties: (a) It contains amongst its most central members those words that denote persons or concrete objects. (b) Its members head phrases – noun phrases – which characteristically function as subject or object in clause structure ...
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Noun Phrases

2020
AbstractThis chapter provides a brief overview of some widely debated issues in discussions of the English noun phrase, and illustrates how these issues have been dealt with in different theoretical approaches. After a general characterization of the noun phrase from a pre-theoretical point of view, the chapter proceeds to discuss the internal ...
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