Comprehensive Grammar Resources

Preface and acknowledgments 1. General introduction 2. Main objective ix 3. Intended readership 4. Object of description x 5. Organization of the material 6. History of the project and future prospects 7. Acknowledgments xxi Introduction, Chapter 1 Nouns: characterization and classification 1.1. Characterization 1.2. Classification 1.3. Derivation of nouns 1.4. Compounding 1.5. Bibliographical notes Chapter 2 Projection of noun phrases I: complementation 2.1. General observations 2.2. Prepositional and nominal complements 2.3. Sentential complements 2.4. Bibliographical notes Chapter 3 Projection of noun phrases II: modification 3.1. Restrictive and non-restrictive modifiers 3.2. Premodification 3.3. Postmodification 3.4. Bibliographical notes Chapter 4 Projection of noun phrases III: binominal constructions 4.1. Binominal constructions without a preposition 4.2. Binominal constructions with a preposition 4.3. Bibliographical notes Chapter 5 Determiners: articles and pronouns 5.1. Articles 5.2. Pronouns 5.3. Bibliographical notes Chapter 6 Numerals and quantifiers 6.1. Numerals 6.2. Quantifiers 6.3. Quantitative er 6.4. Bibliographical notes Chapter 7 Pre-determiners 7.1. The universal quantifier al âallâ and its alternants 7.2. The pre-determiner heel âall/wholeâ 7.3. A note on focus particles 7.4. Bibliographical notes, Chapter 8 Syntactic uses of noun phrases 8.1. Noun phrases as arguments 8.2. Predicative use of the noun phrase 8.3. Adverbial use of the noun phrase 8.4. Bibliographical notes, Glossary, Subject index,References.