Noun Phrase Complexity in English

ISBN: 9781139950145 出版年：2014 页码：300 Eva Berlage Cambridge University Press

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.