Preface and acknowledgments 1. General introduction 2. Main objective ix 3. Intended readership 4. Object of description x 5. Organization of the material 6. History of the project and future prospects 7. Acknowledgments xxi Introduction, Chapter 1 Nouns: characterization and classification 1.

1. Characterization 1.2. Classification 1.3. Derivation of nouns 1.4. Compounding 1.

5. Bibliographical notes Chapter 2 Projection of noun phrases I: complementation 2.1. General observations 2.2. Prepositional and nominal complements 2.3. Sentential complements 2.

4. Bibliographical notes Chapter 3 Projection of noun phrases II: modification 3.1. Restrictive and non-restrictive modifiers 3.2. Premodification 3.3. Postmodification 3.

4. Bibliographical notes Chapter 4 Projection of noun phrases III: binominal constructions 4.1. Binominal constructions without a preposition 4.2. Binominal constructions with a preposition 4.3. Bibliographical notes Chapter 5 Determiners: articles and pronouns 5.

1. Articles 5.2. Pronouns 5.3. Bibliographical notes Chapter 6 Numerals and quantifiers 6.1. Numerals 6.

2. Quantifiers 6.3. Quantitative er 6.4. Bibliographical notes Chapter 7 Pre-determiners 7.1. The universal quantifier al 'all' and its alternants 7.

2. The pre-determiner heel 'all/whole' 7.3. A note on focus particles 7.4. Bibliographical notes, Chapter 8 Syntactic uses of noun phrases 8.1. Noun phrases as arguments 8.

2. Predicative use of the noun phrase 8.3. Adverbial use of the noun phrase 8.4. Bibliographical notes, Glossary, Subject index,References.