English Coordinate Constructions: A Processing Perspective on Constituent Order

ISBN-13: 9781108790871 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 226 str.

Arne Lohmann

Opis

Drawing on extensive corpus-based research, this book explores the nature of coordinate constructions in three case studies.

Recenzje

'A tour de force of modern variation linguistics - and a cutting edge demonstration of how processing affects the ordering in coordinated structures along phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic parameters.' Britta Mondorf, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Previous research on ordering in coordinate constructions; 3. Variables and hypotheses; 4. Data and method; 5. Order of compound constituents; 6. Order of bare noun phrases (binomials); 7. Order of complex noun phrases; 8. Results; 9. A comparative discussion of the results; 10. A processing perspective; 11. Implications and outlook; 12. Summary and conclusion.