Syntax of Dutch: Nouns and Noun Phrases - Volume 1

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A unique reference book for linguists and anyone who wants to know more about the syntactic properties of the Dutch language.

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.

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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.