Open AccessAppositionsforbindelser
Author(s) -
Jørgen Schack
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
ny forskning i grammatik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2446-1709
pISSN - 1902-1291
DOI - 10.7146/nfg.v24i23.24653
Subject(s) - apposition , noun phrase , linguistics , phrase , mathematics , term (time) , combinatorics , noun , philosophy , physics , astronomy
This paper discusses the notion of apposition as accounted for in current Scandinavian grammars and studies. It is concluded that the term ‘apposition’ should be reserved for parenthetical units, i.e. syntactically independent, non-restrictive units such as Barack Obama in den amerikanske præsident, Barack Obama, leaving out constructions such as den amerikanske senator Bernie Sanders, in which the rightmost unit, Bernie Sanders, functions as the head of a noun phrase.