Syntax of Dutch: Nouns and Noun Phrases - Volume 2

by Hans Broekhuis, Marcel Dikken

Overview

The Syntax of Dutch will be published in at least seven volumes in the period 2012-2016 and aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily concerned with language description and not with linguistic theory, and provides support to all researchers interested in matters relating to the syntax of Dutch, including advanced students of language and linguistics.,The two volumes Nouns and Noun Phrases discuss the internal make-up as well as the distribution of noun phrases. Topics that will be covered include: complementation and modification of noun phrases; properties of determiners (article, demonstratives), numeral and quantifiers; the use of noun phrases as arguments, predicates and adverbial modifiers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040792612
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/01/2025
Series:	Comprehensive Grammar Resources
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	602
File size:	886 KB

About the Author

Hans Broekhuis is a researcher on the Variationist Linguistics Language Portal at the Meertens Instituut, part of the Dutch academy of sciences (KNAW). He has published with colleagues many volumes in the Syntax of Dutch series, and has co-edited Broekhuis, H.&R. Vogel. (2013) Linguistic Derivations and Filtering. Minimalism and Optimality Theory (Equinox, 2013), and a monograph entitled Derivations and evaluations. Object shift in the Germanic languages (Mouton de Gruyter, 2008)|Marcel den Dikken is professor in Linguistics at the graduate center of the City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgments 1. General introduction 2. Main objective ix 3. Intended readership 4. Object of description x 5. Organization of the material 6. History of the project and future prospects 7. Acknowledgments xxi Introduction, Chapter 1 Nouns: characterization and classification 1.1. Characterization 1.2. Classification 1.3. Derivation of nouns 1.4. Compounding 1.5. Bibliographical notes Chapter 2 Projection of noun phrases I: complementation 2.1. General observations 2.2. Prepositional and nominal complements 2.3. Sentential complements 2.4. Bibliographical notes Chapter 3 Projection of noun phrases II: modification 3.1. Restrictive and non-restrictive modifiers 3.2. Premodification 3.3. Postmodification 3.4. Bibliographical notes Chapter 4 Projection of noun phrases III: binominal constructions 4.1. Binominal constructions without a preposition 4.2. Binominal constructions with a preposition 4.3. Bibliographical notes Chapter 5 Determiners: articles and pronouns 5.1. Articles 5.2. Pronouns 5.3. Bibliographical notes Chapter 6 Numerals and quantifiers 6.1. Numerals 6.2. Quantifiers 6.3. Quantitative er 6.4. Bibliographical notes Chapter 7 Pre-determiners 7.1. The universal quantifier al ‘all’ and its alternants 7.2. The pre-determiner heel ‘all/whole’ 7.3. A note on focus particles 7.4. Bibliographical notes, Chapter 8 Syntactic uses of noun phrases 8.1. Noun phrases as arguments 8.2. Predicative use of the noun phrase 8.3. Adverbial use of the noun phrase 8.4. Bibliographical notes, Glossary, Subject index,References.

Editorial Reviews

This project is, by all measures, an extraordinary one, both in conception and execution. To a remarkable degree the Syntax of Dutch project manages to harmonize demands of depth and breadth. In part this appears to be due to the highly systematic approach followed. I believe the Syntax of Dutch project will ultimately become a model for comprehensive grammatical description in the years ahead.” - Richard Larson, Professor of Linguistics at University of Stony Brook

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