Kalynovska I. Noun Phrase Structure and its Dependency on Lexico-Semantic Group of Head Noun: A Study of English Literary Texts

The thesis focuses on the study of noun phrase structural and functional peculiarities in English literary texts, their dependency on lexico-semantic group of the head noun. The thesis contains a detailed analysis of noun phrases, in which the active valency of high frequency Modern English nouns is realized, taking into account noun phrase structural features (noun phrase size, morphological composition and arrangement of components, relation between the head noun and depending elements). The integral methodology applied (methods of distributional, componential, valency analyses, statistical methods) allowed to investigate functional characteristics of noun phrases in English literary texts. The English noun phrase structure is proved to be conditioned by lexico-semantic group of the head noun, determiners are a distinctive factor of noun phrase structural types, functional peculiarities of noun phrases in English literary texts are determined by their structure and lexico-semantic groups the head nouns belong to.