Abbreviations and symbols vii Preface and acknowledgments ix 1. General introduction ix 2. Main objective ix 3. Intended readership ix 4. Object of description x 5. Organization of the material xv 6. History of the project and future prospects xix 7. Acknowledgments xxi Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Nouns: characterization and classification 3 1.1. Characterization 5 1.2. Classification 16 1.3. Derivation of nouns 48 1.4. Compounding 110 1.5. Bibliographical notes 114 Chapter 2 Projection of noun phrases I: complementation 117 2.1. General observations 119 2.2. Prepositional and nominal complements 135 2.3. Sentential complements 332 2.4. Bibliographical notes 355 Chapter 3 Projection of noun phrases II: modification 357 3.1. Restrictive and non-restrictive modifiers 360 3.2. Premodification 374 3.3. Postmodification 376 3.4. Bibliographical notes 571 Chapter 4 Projection of noun phrases III: binominal constructions 573 4.1. Binominal constructions without a preposition 574 4.2. Binominal constructions with a preposition 642 4.3. Bibliographical notes 671 Chapter 5 Determiners: articles and pronouns 673 5.1. Articles 677 5.2. Pronouns 773 5.3. Bibliographical notes 868 Chapter 6 Numerals and quantifiers 871 6.1. Numerals 872 6.2. Quantifiers 897 6.3. Quantitative er 934 6.4. Bibliographical notes 942 Chapter 7 Pre-determiners 945 7.1. The universal quantifier al ‘all’ and its alternants 948 7.2. The pre-determiner heel ‘all/whole’ 999 7.3. A note on focus particles 1050 7.4. Bibliographical notes 1051 Chapter 8 Syntactic uses of noun phrases 1053 8.1. Noun phrases as arguments 1054 8.2. Predicative use of the noun phrase 1087 8.3. Adverbial use of the noun phrase 1105 8.4. Bibliographical notes 1114 Glossary 1117 Subject index 1141 References 1153