The structure of the nominal group

• Autores: Giuliana Giusti
• Localización: The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages / Adam Ledgeway (ed. lit.), Martin Maiden (ed. lit.), 2016, ISBN 9780199677108, págs. 541-555
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The main goal of this chapter is to provide a comparative overview of the structure of the nominal group, including the distribution, combinatorial possibilities, and ordering of components such as articles, demonstratives, quantifiers, possessives, dependent genitives, adjectives; argument structure; agreement; and the marking of definiteness and specificity. Specific topics dealt with include: functional features on nouns; object referring nouns; event/result nouns; relational nouns; proper names; functional features on adjectives; relational adjectives; descriptive adjectives; determiner-like adjectives; direct vs indirect modfication; determiners; inflectional properties of determiners; demonstratives; articles; quantifiers; possessives; possessive adjectives; left periphery of the nominal group.