Book contents
- Noun Phrase Complexity in English
- Series page
- Noun Phrase Complexity in English
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and symbols
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The variationist framework
- 3 Methodology I: defining the syntactic complexity of NPs
- 4 Methodology II: modes of data presentation, statistical procedures, and electronic corpora
- 5 Optional verb phrases in topic-restricting as far as constructions
- 6 Word-order variation involving the collocations take prisoner, hold prisoner and take hostage, hold hostage
- 7 Word-order variation involving pre- and postposed notwithstanding
- 8 Infinitival variation following help
- 9 NP-complexity and change
- 10 Conclusion and future directions
- References
- Index
Abbreviations and symbols
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2014
- Noun Phrase Complexity in English
- Series page
- Noun Phrase Complexity in English
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and symbols
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The variationist framework
- 3 Methodology I: defining the syntactic complexity of NPs
- 4 Methodology II: modes of data presentation, statistical procedures, and electronic corpora
- 5 Optional verb phrases in topic-restricting as far as constructions
- 6 Word-order variation involving the collocations take prisoner, hold prisoner and take hostage, hold hostage
- 7 Word-order variation involving pre- and postposed notwithstanding
- 8 Infinitival variation following help
- 9 NP-complexity and change
- 10 Conclusion and future directions
- References
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Noun Phrase Complexity in English , pp. xx - xxiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014