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This volume aims to carry out a comprehensive analysis of those nouns within the structure of the noun phrase which are referred to as N+N sequences (e.g. drug addiction, computer cluster). They are studied from three perspectives, namely their status as syntactic constructs, their evolution as becoming morphological items through a process of lexicalisation – whereby they gradually acquire properties of a semantic, morphological, orthographic and phonological nature –, and their use in which several variables such as speech community, mode and textual category are in operation. Additionally, this volume touches upon the problems in establishing clear-cut boundaries between morphology and syntax in order to define their status and evolution. A comprehensive corpus analysis rounds off the study.

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Contents: English Noun Phrase Structure – Noun + Noun Sequences – English Linguistics – Corpus Linguistics – Morphology – Syntax – Syntax-Morphology Interface – Sociolinguistics – Lexicalisation – Gradience.

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      Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/03/2011
      ISBN13: 9783034305341, 978-3034305341
      ISBN10: 3034305346

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume aims to carry out a comprehensive analysis of those nouns within the structure of the noun phrase which are referred to as N+N sequences (e.g. drug addiction, computer cluster). They are studied from three perspectives, namely their status as syntactic constructs, their evolution as becoming morphological items through a process of lexicalisation – whereby they gradually acquire properties of a semantic, morphological, orthographic and phonological nature –, and their use in which several variables such as speech community, mode and textual category are in operation. Additionally, this volume touches upon the problems in establishing clear-cut boundaries between morphology and syntax in order to define their status and evolution. A comprehensive corpus analysis rounds off the study.

      Table of Contents
      Contents: English Noun Phrase Structure – Noun + Noun Sequences – English Linguistics – Corpus Linguistics – Morphology – Syntax – Syntax-Morphology Interface – Sociolinguistics – Lexicalisation – Gradience.

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