Distinguishing the components that make up the meaning of a noun enables us to understand what permits us to say "Ground temperature plus one degrees," or to invent "small is beautiful." A careful look at the meaning and role of -'s and of words like a/the, any/some, this/that, often found in noun phrases, reveals how they refer to the speaker's message. Examining pronouns pin-points the fundamental role of the representation of a grammatical person in all noun phrases.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-401) and index
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Preface 12
- 1 What We Are Going to Talk about and How 18
- 2 Substantive, Adjective and Adverb: The Theory of Incidence 31
- 3 Parts of Speech and the Word 51
- 4 Case and the Substantive 68
- 5 Number: Toward the System 83
- 6 Number: Testing for -ø Morpheme 104
- 7 Number: Testing for -s Morpheme 120
- 8 Gender in the Substantive 141
- 9 The Substantive 162
- 10 The System of the Articles 175
- 11 A vs. the in Discourse 190
- 12 Bare vs. Articled -s Substantives 212
- 13 Bare vs. Articled -ø Substantives 229
- 14 Any as a Quantifier 249
- 15 Some and the System 265
- 16 The Demonstratives 285
- 17 Determiners as Completive Pronouns 307
- 18 -’s Phrase 317
- 19 Suppletive Pronouns as Noun Phrase 331
- 20 Personal Pronouns and the Expression of Gender 347
- 21 The Noun Phrase and Person 363
- 22 Syntactic Function 373
- 23 Concluding Remarks 383
- Postscript 391
- Glossary 394
- Notes 398
- References 410
- Index 418
- A 418
- B 418
- C 418
- D 418
- E 418
- F 419
- G 419
- H 419
- I 419
- J 419
- K 419
- L 419
- M 419
- N 419
- P 420
- Q 420
- R 420
- S 420
- T 420
- U 420
- V 420
- W 420
- Z 420
