Author Description

1. Introduction / Sandra A Thompson and Tsuyoshi Ono -- Part I. Languages from Europe: 2 The Finnish se että initiated expressions: NPs or not? / Karita Suomalainen, Anna Vatanen and Ritva Laury -- 3. Emergent complex noun phrases: On-line trajectories of 'relativized' NPs in French talk-in-interaction / Ioana-Maria Stoenica, Simona Pekarek Doehler and Anne-Sylvie Horlacher -- 4. The noun phrase as an emergent unit in Finnish / Marja-Liisa Helasvuo -- 5. Noun phrases in other-repetitions: Observations of Swedish talk-in interaction / Jan Lindström, Martina Huhtamäki and Anne-Marie Londen -- 6. Asserting no-problemness in Spanish: 'No hay (ningún) problema' and the study of noun phrases in interaction / Chase Wesley Raymond and Barbara A. Fox -- 7. Multimodal noun phrases / Leelo Keevallik -- 8. Nouns and noun phrases in other-initiated repair in English atypical interaction: A case study of augmentative and alternative communication / Patricia Mayes -- Part II. Languages from other parts of the world: 9. Multiple nominal expressions in Garrwa conversation / Ilana Mushin -- 10. The pragmatics of 'light nouns' in Besemah / Bradley McDonnell -- 11. NP clustering in Mandarin conversational interaction / Hongyin Tao -- 12. What can Japanese conversation tell us about 'NP'? / Tsuyoshi Ono and Sandra A. Thompson -- 13. Robust argument phrases (DPs) but unruly NPs in Maa / Doris L. Payne.