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A Construction Grammar of the English Language: CASA – a constructionist approach to syntactic analysis
Thomas Herbst and Thomas Hoffmann
[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice 5] 2024
► pp. 132–161

Chapter 6
Referring to, describing and evaluating things

Nominal constructions

Article outline
  • 6.1Nouns and pronouns in language acquisition
  • 6.2Characteristics of NP-constructions
    • 6.2.1NPs can fill the same slots
    • 6.2.2NPs can be used to refer to ‘things’
      • 6.2.2.1Reference
      • 6.2.2.2Grounding elements
    • 6.2.3A family of NP-constructions
    • 6.2.4Proper nouns, count and mass nouns
  • 6.3Indefinite NP-constructions
  • 6.4Definite NP-constructions
    • 6.4.1the + nouns
    • 6.4.2Personal pronoun constructions
    • 6.4.3Reflexive NP-constructions
    • 6.4.4Reciprocal constructions
    • 6.4.5Genitive and possessive constructions
  • 6.5Demonstrative NP-constructions
  • 6.6Quantifying NP-constructions
    • 6.6.1Numerical NP-constructions
    • 6.6.2General quantifier NP-constructions
  • 6.7Ranking NP-constructions
  • 6.8Wh-NP-constructions
  • 6.9Name and title constructions
  • 6.10Noun phrases
    • 6.10.1Basic NP-constructions
    • 6.10.2Modifier-of-noun constructions
      • 6.10.2.1Premodifier-of-noun constructions
      • 6.10.2.2Postmodifier-of-noun constructions
      • 6.10.2.3Discontinuous modifier-of-noun constructions
    • 6.10.3A simplified, integrated view of NP-constructions
    • 6.10.4Shortcut representations
  • Notes
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