The Syntax of Noun Phrases in Bosnian and English

This monograph deals with one type of phrasal structures - noun headed structures. They may be extremely complex and frequently differ in complexity from language to language. Therefore, it is useful to contrast noun phrases in two or more languages, here it is Bosnian and English. The aim of the contrastive study is to present both differences and similarities holding between structures of noun phrases in Bosnian and English, not from the point of view of one of them, but from the point of view of how a universal syntactic category, such as the noun phrase, is handled in both of them. In that sense the study has a theoretical, rather than applied, character. The consideration of contrastive data from two languages (Bosnian being highly inflected in contrast to English) is useful in solving some theoretical problems, specifically those regarding the relations obtaining between modifiers and heads of syntactic categories. The detailed description of the structure of noun phrases in two languages makes it possible to abstract common properties that they share. This in turn contributes to a better understanding of the general properties of the noun phrase in language and its place in Universal Grammar (written in Bosnian). The author has Ph.D. in linguistics (Indiana University, 1986) and teaches linguistics at the University of Sarajevo. (written in Bosnian) ISBN 9783895864438. LINCOM Studies in Slavic Linguistics 37. 202pp. 2010.