Noun Phrase Complexity in English

by Eva Berlage

Book Overview

This book explores noun phrase (NP) complexity in English, showing that it is best accounted for both by a linear and a hierarchical parameter: its length and its type of postmodifier(s). The study is methodologically unique in that it combines univariate and multivariate analyses in an investigation of four different syntactic variables. Drawing on more than three billion words of British and American data, Eva Berlage shows that the length and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108790429
• ISBN13: 9781108790420
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"