Nouns and Noun Phrases - University of Macau Library

Syntactic uses of noun phrases 1113
operation. The existing approaches to object scrambling can be divided into three
different groups depending on whether it is considered to be A- or A′-movement, or
to involve base-generation; a representative sample of these approaches can be
found in Corver & Van Riemsdijk (1994). Webelhuth (1989/1992) has shown that
Dutch/German object scrambling has properties of both A- and A′-movement, a fact
that is often referred to as °Webelhuth’s paradox. This has given rise to the claim
that the notion of scrambling actually refers to (at least) two different types of
movement; cf., e.g., Vanden Wyngaerd (1988/1989), Déprez (1989), Mahajan
(1990), Neeleman (1994b), and Broekhuis (2008). The type of scrambling discussed
in this chapter is of the A-movement sort.
Again, it is not possible to give a representative overview of the literature
concerning the expletive construction and the so-called definiteness effect. Some
important contributions have already been mentioned in the bibliographical notes to
Chapter 6.
A classical study on Dutch copular constructions with a nominal predicate is
Blom & Daalder (1977). More recent studies concerning nominal predicates are
Moro (1997) and Den Dikken (2006); we refer the reader to these studies for
additional references. There are not many studies on the adverbial use of noun
phrases; our discussion on the use of noun phrases as temporal adjuncts is mainly
built on the discussion found in the more traditional grammars. For the use of noun
phrases as measure phrases, see Klooster (1972) and Corver (1990).