Table of Contents

1: Preliminaries
2: Nominal Subcategories: Seinsarten
3: Nouns: Real and Apparent Nominal Subclasses
4: Qualifying Modifiers in the Noun Phrase
5: Quantifying Modifiers in the Noun Phrase
6: Localizing Modifiers in the Noun Phrase
7: The Underlying Structure of Noun Phrases
8: Ordering Principles, Domain Integrity, and Discontinuity
9: Greenbergian Word Order Correlations and the Principle of Head Proximity
10: The Principle of Scope
11: Epilogue

About the Author

Jan Rijkhoff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Upon gaining his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam (1992), he was appointed as a senior researcher at the same institution before going on to become Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Konstanz in Germany (1995). From 1990-5, Professor Rijkhoff was also a core member of Theme Group II (Constituent Order) in the European Science Foundation's
'Program in Language Typology "EUROTYP"'.

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