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Introduction: The syntax of nominals and noun phrases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2008

Kersti Börjars  and
Lars-Olof Delsing
Kersti Börjars
Affiliation:
School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K.k.borjars@manchester.ac.uk
Lars-Olof Delsing
Affiliation:
Nordiska språk, Språk- och litteraturcentrum, Lunds Universitet, P.O. Box 201, SE-22100 Lund, Swedenlars-olof.delsing@nordlund.lu.se
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The noun phrase was long a neglected area within research in modern syntactic theory. Studies tended to focus instead on the clause and less attention was paid to the internal structure of the noun phrase. The early studies would often take an interest in the properties of noun phrases only in so far as they interacted with clausal morpho-syntax. Nominalisations were then subject to some early studies, as in Chomsky (1970) and work inspired by it.

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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 31 , Special Issue 2: The syntax of nominals and noun phrases , December 2008 , pp. 129 - 134
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