Lessons on the noun phrase in English : from representation to reference / / Walter Hirtle

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814234603321
• Autore: Hirtle W. H
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, NY, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009
• ISBN: 1-282-86687-7; 9786612866876; 0-7735-7643-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (420 p.)
• Disciplina: 425/.5
• Soggetti: English language - Noun phrase; Grammar, Comparative and general - Noun phrase
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: What we are going to talk about and how -- Substantive, adjective and adverb: the theory of incidence -- Parts of speech and the word -- Case and the substantive -- Number: toward the system -- Number: testing for -ø morpheme -- Number: testing for -s morpheme -- Gender in the substantive -- The substantive -- The system of the articles -- A vs. the in discourse -- Bare vs. articled -s substantives -- Bare vs. articled -ø substantives -- Any as a quantifier -- Some and the system --The demonstratives -- Determiners as completive pronouns -- -'s phrase -- Suppletive pronouns as noun phrase -- Personal pronouns and the expression of gender -- The noun phrase and person -- Syntactic function -- Concluding remarks.
• Sommario/riassunto: Distinguishing the components that make up the meaning of a noun enables us to understand what permits us to say "Ground temperature plus one degrees," or to invent "small is beautiful." A careful look at the meaning and role of -'s and of words like a/the, any/some, this/that, often found in noun phrases, reveals how they refer to the speaker's message. Examining pronouns pin-points the fundamental role of the representation of a grammatical person in all noun phrases.