The Noun Phrase Across Languages An Emergent Unit in Interaction 1st Edition by Tsuyoshi Ono 9789027261519 9027261512

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• ISBN 10: 9027261512
• ISBN 13: 9789027261519
• Author: Tsuyoshi Ono

The ‘NP’ is one of the least controversial grammatical units that linguists work with. The NP is often assumed to be universal, and appears to be robust cross-linguistically (compared to ‘VP’ or even ‘clause’) in that it can be manipulated in argument positions in constructed examples. Furthermore, for any given language, its internal structure (order and type of modifiers) tends to be relatively fixed. Surprisingly, however, the empirical basis for ‘NP’ has never been established. The chapters in this volume examine the NP in everyday interactions from diverse languages, including little-studied languages as well as better-researched ones, in a variety of interactional settings. Together, these chapters show that cross-linguistically, the category NP is not as robust as has been assumed: in the context of temporally unfolding human interaction, its structural status is constantly negotiated in terms of participants’ evolving social agendas.

Table contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. The Finnish se että initiated expressions: NPs or not?

Chapter 3. Emergent complex noun phrases: On-line trajectories of ‘relativized’ NPs in French talk-in-interaction

Chapter 4. The noun phrase as an emergent unit in Finnish

Chapter 5. Noun phrases in other-repetitions: Observations of Swedish talk-in-interaction

Chapter 6. Asserting no-problemness in Spanish: ‘No hay (ningún) problema’ and the study of noun phrases in interaction

Chapter 7. Multimodal noun phrases

Chapter 8. Nouns and noun phrases in other-initiated repair in English atypical interaction: A case study of Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Chapter 9. Multiple nominal expressions in Garrwa conversation

Chapter 10. The pragmatics of ‘light nouns’ in Besemah

Chapter 11. NP clustering in Mandarin conversational interaction

Chapter 12. What can Japanese conversation tell us about ‘NP’?

Chapter 13. Robust argument phrases (DPs) but unruly NPs in Maa

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