The Noun Phrase

Pre-established categories don't exist: Consequences for language description and typology

“…The notion of category could be broadened to include also constructions (which are just complex syntactic categories with specific properties), such as ditransitive constructions (Haspelmath 2005), non-verbal predicative constructions (Stassen 1997), relative clauses (Lehmann 1984), or noun phrases (Rijkhoff 2002), as well as phonological categories such as velar nasals (Anderson 2005) or stress (Goedemans & van der Hulst 2005). At a more abstract level, general notions such as sentence, clause, phrase, word, clitic, affix, stem, root, inflection, syllable, diphthong, consonant must also be regarded as (highly abstract) categories of language form, though it is less obvious that typology has made significant contributions to understanding them.…”

Mood, definiteness and specificity: a linguistic and a philosophical account of their similarities and differences

“…Whereas formal frameworks are concerned with similarities in the syntactic structure of NPs and clauses, functional theories have focused on parallels between semantic representations of these linguistic units. In the framework of Functional Grammar (Dik 1997) such parallels were first discussed in Rijkhoff (1988) and they will be briefly presented below (for a more elaborate presentation the reader is referred to Rijkhoff 2002). …”

Constructions Expressing Inaccurate Quantity: Functions and Status in Modern English

“…These classifiers are usually used for dividing living beings into groups with the help of collective nouns, which semantically correlate with the word 'group' (Rijkhoff, 2002;Beckwith, 2007;Payne, 2011).…”