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1121:, where the conception of an X phrase is a phrase that can stand in for X. By 1912, the concept of a noun phrase as being based around a noun can be found, for example, "an adverbial noun phrases is a group of words of which the noun is the base word, that tells the time or place of an action, or how long, how far, or how much". By 1924, the idea of a noun phrase being a noun plus dependents seems to be established. For example, "Note order of words in noun-phrase--noun + adj. + genitive" suggests a more modern conception of noun phrases. 25: 205: 1002:
NP NP | DP DP / \ | | / \ | det N' N' | det NP NP | / \ / \ | | / \ / \ the adj N' adj N' | the adj NP
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house houses | the (null) / / / | \ \ / / big | house houses the big | / / | big
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The allowability, form and position of these elements depend on the syntax of the language in question. In English, determiners, adjectives (and some adjective phrases) and noun modifiers precede the head noun, whereas the heavier units – phrases and clauses – generally follow it. This is part of a
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For a dependency grammar analysis of noun phrases similar to the one represented by the trees here, see for instance Starosta (1988:219ff.). For an example of a relatively "flat" analysis of NP structure like the one produced here, but in a phrase structure grammar, see Culicover and Jackendoff
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adj NP | | | | | | | | | big N big N | big N big N | | | | | house houses | house houses
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The words in bold are called phrases since they appear in the syntactic positions where multiple-word phrases (i.e. traditional phrases) can appear. This practice takes the constellation to be primitive rather than the words themselves. The word
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from its start (since the early 1990s), though the arguments in its favor tend to be theory-internal. By taking the determiner, a function word, to be head over the noun, a structure is established that is analogous to the structure of the
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A string of words that can be replaced by a single pronoun without rendering the sentence grammatically unacceptable is a noun phrase. As to whether the string must contain at least two words, see the following section.
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For direct examples of approaches that obscure the distinction between nouns and pronouns on the one hand and noun phrases on the other, see for instance Matthews (1981:160f.) and (Lockwood (2002:3).
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In some modern theories of syntax, however, what are called "noun phrases" above are no longer considered to be headed by a noun, but by the determiner (which may be null), and they are thus called
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García Velasco, Daniel and Jan Rijkhoff (eds.).2008. The Noun Phrase in Functional Discourse Grammar (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 195). Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
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For definitions and discussions of the noun (nominal) phrase that point to the presence of a head noun, see for instance Crystal (1997:264), Lockwood (2002:3), and Radford (2004: 14, 348).
867:); in this case the phrase may be described as having a "null determiner". (Situations in which this is possible depend on the rules of the language in question; for English, see 927:(DP) instead of noun phrases. (In some accounts that take this approach, the constituent lacking the determiner – that called N-bar above – may be referred to as a noun phrase.) 973:
The representation also depends on whether the noun or the determiner is taken to be the head of the phrase (see the discussion of the DP hypothesis in the previous section).
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Noun phrases can take different forms than that described above, for example when the head is a pronoun rather than a noun, or when elements are linked with a
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are likely to reject this approach to phrases, since they take the words themselves to be primitive. For them, phrases must contain two or more words.
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For illustrations of different analyses of noun phrases depending on whether the DP hypothesis is rejected or accepted, see the next section.
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in many contexts, and thus a distinction is made in syntactic analysis between phrases that have received their required determiner (such as
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On this understanding of phrases, the nouns and pronouns in bold in the following sentences are noun phrases (as well as nouns or pronouns):
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Rijkhoff, Jan. 2008. Descriptive and discourse-referential modifiers in a layered model of the noun phrase. Linguistics 46–4, 789–829.
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is now depicted as the head of the entire phrase, thus making the phrase a determiner phrase. There is still a noun phrase present (
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The situation is complicated by the fact that in some contexts a noun phrase may nonetheless be used without a determiner (as in
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of the phrase) together with zero or more dependents of various types. (These dependents, since they modify a noun, are called
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The first tree is based on the traditional assumption that nouns, rather than determiners, are the heads of phrases.
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Noun phrases can be identified by the possibility of pronoun substitution, as is illustrated in the examples below.
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The second tree assumes the DP hypothesis, namely that determiners serve as phrase heads, rather than nouns.
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The following trees represent a more complex phrase. For simplicity, only dependency-based trees are given.
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Some examples of noun phrases are underlined in the sentences below. The head noun appears in bold.
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Lockwood, D. 2002. Syntactic analysis and description: A constructional approach. London: Continuum.
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grant noun phrases an intricate structure that acknowledges a hierarchy of functional projections.
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strong tendency in English to place heavier constituents to the right, making English more of a
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Stockwell, P. 1977. Foundations of syntactic theory Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc.
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of another noun phrase; see Huddleston and Pullum (2002:331) for examples, including the NP
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For discussion and criticism of the DP analysis of noun phrases, see Matthews (2007:12ff.).
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In some languages, including English, noun phrases are required to be "completed" with a
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depends on the basic approach to syntactic structure adopted. The layered trees of many
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trees, first using the original X-bar theory, then using the current DP approach:
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are analyzed as having the determiner as the head of the phrase, see for instance
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2004. English syntax: An introduction. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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also functions as a noun phrase (in this case without an explicit determiner).
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Concerning how noun phrases function, see for instance Stockwell (1977:55ff.).
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trees, first using the traditional NP approach, then using the DP approach:
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has two underlined infinitives which may be replaced by nouns, as in
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that they fulfill are those of the arguments of the main clause
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Murby's English grammar and analysis, taught simultaneously
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This analysis of noun phrases is widely referred to as the
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An early conception of the noun phrase can be found in
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Below are some possible trees for the two noun phrases
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Phrase which grammatically functions the same as a noun
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