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Topic: Noun phrase

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Phrase

Prepositional phrase

Verb phrase

Phrase structure rules

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Adjectival phrase

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Syntax

Clitic

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	The Function Of Phrases
		A phrase may function as a verb, noun, an adverb, or an adjective.
		A noun phrase consists of a pronoun or noun with any associated modifiers, including adjectives, adjective phrases, adjective clauses, and other nouns in the possessive case.
		A gerund phrase or infinitive phrase, then, is a noun phrase consisting of a verbal, its modifiers (both adjectives and adverbs), and its objects:
	www.uottawa.ca /academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/phrfunc.html (588 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Proper noun (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In linguistics, a noun phrase is a phrase whose Head is a noun.
		Nouns occur in sentences in two different ways: as subjects (performers of action), or objects (recipients of action); in the sentence "John wrote me a letter", "John" is a subject, and "me" and "letter" are objects.
		A concrete noun is the opposite of a abstract noun.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Proper-noun (420 words)

	News \| Gainesville.com \| The Gainesville Sun \| Gainesville, Fla. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In grammatical theory, a noun phrase (abbreviated NP) is a phrase whose head is a noun or a pronoun, optionally accompanied by a set of modifiers.
		A noun phrase can play the role of a verb argument (such as the subject, the object) or the role of the predicate.
		A prototypical case is the case when the noun phrase cooccurs with the copula and another noun phrase.
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	Noun phrase - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A noun phrase can be a single word: in See Jane run, Jane could be described as a noun phrase.
		In English, for some purposes noun phrases can be treated as single grammatical units.
		In a phrase such as The King of Sparta's wife, the possessive clitic 's is not added to the King who actually owns the wife, but instead to Sparta, to which the wife only remotely belongs.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Noun_phrase (155 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In grammar, a phrase (Greek ÏÏÎ¬ÏÎ·, sentence, expression, see also strophe) is a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence.
		However, there are certain phenomena that formally seem to be phrases but semantically are more like compounds, like "women's magazines", which has the form of a possessive noun phrase, but which refers (just like a compound) to one specific lexeme (i.e.
		For example prepositional phrases express a figure-ground relation in which the prepositional complement is the ground, the preposition itself specifies the relation, and the precedent element is the figure.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=phrase (503 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Postposition (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A postposition is a type of adposition, a grammatical particle that expresses some sort of relationship between a noun phrase (its object) and another part of the sentence; an adpositional phrase functions as an adjective or adverb.
		In grammar, a preposition is a type of adposition, a grammatical particle that establishes a relationship between an object (usually a noun phrase) and some other part of the sentence, often expressing a location in place or time.
		A postposition is a grammatical particle that expresses some sort of relationship between the preceding noun or pronoun (its object) and another part of the sentence; a postpositional phrase functions as an adjective or adverb.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Postposition (806 words)

	CASES AND POSTPOSITIONS
		Notice that one case morpheme attached at the end suffices to mark the entire Noun phrase; that is, we do not have to attach an ergative marker to each of the words of the Noun phrase in (1a), nor do we have to add more than one dative marker in (1b).
		Mostly, Noun phrases marked with absolutive case will receive no gloss for case, but when discussing verbal morphology in chapter 4, the gloss A will be used to mark agreement with absolutive, which is mostly visible.
		In (20a), the Noun phrase headed by the animate noun alaba 'daughter' is treated as animate in the grammar, that is, the morpheme ga is inserted between the genitive morpheme attached to the Noun phrase and the locative postposition.
	www.ehu.es /grammar/gram3.htm (3626 words)

	Grammar of Arvorec - 2. The Noun Phrase
		While for most animate nouns, the gender matches the sex of the referent (thus den man is masculine and ben woman is feminine), for inanimate nouns and abstracts, gender assignment is arbitrary.
		Several nouns denoting body parts which form a natural pair (such as ears, legs, arms etc.) have in addition to the normal singular and plural forms a dual form which denotes a natural pair, which is formed by prefixing daw- to a masculine singular noun and dwy- to a feminine singular noun.
		The suffix -en forms a feminine singular noun and is used principally with trees and to form nouns indicating "a female inhabitant of".
	www.arvorec.net /arvorec/arvorec2.htm (2837 words)

	Complete Reference: The Noun Phrase
		Once we are sensitive to the existence of noun phrases, we recognize a relatively simple structure to the sentence.
		Not all prepositional phrases after a noun are necessarily part of the noun phrase — they could be later predicate or sentence modifiers.
		Finally, the degree to which noun phrases are the dominant construction within texts can be seen in the opening paragraph of the Text for Discussion: Annotation - Needle Exchange Programs and the Law - Time for a Change.
	www.criticalreading.com /noun_phrase.htm (2198 words)

	LEO: Phrase Formulas
		A phrase is a group of words that lacks a subject, a predicate, or both and does not express a complete thought.
		A noun phrase consists of a noun and all of its modifiers.
		An appositive phrase is a noun phrase or any other type of phrase functioning as a noun that renames a noun/pronoun preceding it.
	leo.stcloudstate.edu /grammar/phraseformulas.html (851 words)

	Persian Noun Phrase
		The elements preceding the head noun are the determiner, the numeral constructions and the quantifiers.
		The complex noun phrase is the equivalent of the genitive or possessive constructions in English, such as "Mao's red book", "her mother's hat" or "the syntax of noun phrases".
		When the head noun is the indirect object or is extracted from a Prepositional Phrase adjunct in the clause, a resumptive pronoun is used.
	crl.nmsu.edu /Research/Projects/shiraz/ling/np.html (3926 words)

	The Garden of Phrases
		Sometimes part of the noun phrase is delayed until the end of the sentence so that that portion of the phrase (usually modifying phrases — participial or prepositional) can receive end weight or focus.
		A prepositional phrase consists of a preposition, a noun or pronoun that serves as the object of the preposition, and, more often than not, an adjective or two that modifies the object.
		A prepositional phrase at the beginning of a sentence constitutes an introductory modifier, which is usually a signal for a comma.
	grammar.ccc.commnet.edu /grammar/phrases.htm (2125 words)

	The English Noun Phrase Project
		The importance of the Noun Phrase in language was acknowledged by the European Science Foundation, when it made this topic one of the central themes of its Eurotyp Project (Programme in Language Typology, 1990-4; Siewierska 1997).
		The project's aims are to carry out a large-scale study of the English Noun Phrase (NP), using the recently completed British component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-GB) as a database.
		In the case of Noun Phrases, not only can the NP structures themselves be specified, but also the surrounding structures.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /english-usage/projects/noun-phrase (1245 words)

	The Function Of Phrases
		A phrase may function as a verb, noun, an adverb, or an adjective.
		A verb phrase consists of a verb, its direct and/or indirect objects, and any adverb, adverb phrases, or adverb clauses which happen to modify it.
		A noun phrase consists of a pronoun or noun with any associated modifiers, including adjectives, adjective phrases, adjective clauses, and other nouns in the possessive case.
	www.arts.uottawa.ca /writcent/hypergrammar/phrfunc.html (588 words)

	Noun Phrases - Glossary Definition - UsingEnglish.com
		A noun phrase is either a single noun or pronoun or a group of words containing a noun or a pronoun that function together as a noun or pronoun, as the subject or object of a verb.
		('John' is the noun phrase functioning as the subject of the verb.)
		nine o'clock' is a lengthy noun phrase, but it functions as the subject of the main verb 'have just left'.)
	www.usingenglish.com /glossary/noun-phrase.html (166 words)

	Verbals: Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives
		A Gerund Phrase is a group of words consisting of a gerund and the modifier(s) and/or (pro)noun(s) or noun phrase(s) that function as the direct object(s), indirect object(s), or complement(s) of the action or state expressed in the gerund, such as:
		A participial phrase is a group of words consisting of a participle and the modifier(s) and/or (pro)noun(s) or noun phrase(s) that function as the direct object(s), indirect object(s), or complement(s) of the action or state expressed in the participle, such as:
		A participial phrase is set off with commas when it: a) comes at the beginning of a sentence, b) interrupts a sentence as a nonessential element, or c) comes at the end of a sentence and is separated from the word it modifies.
	owl.english.purdue.edu /handouts/grammar/g_verbals.html (2846 words)

	ThereTheir.com - Don't Write Like an Idiot
		Always followed by a noun or noun phrase.
		Most nouns are made plural with an S or ES.
		Affect also has a noun form that you probably will never use if you're reading this, and the same goes for Effect's verb form, but I'll give them anyway.
	web.centre.edu /barkin/there (722 words)

	UH CogSci Lexicon: Noun Phrase (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the sentence, 'The fl cat is happy,' 'the fl cat' is the noun phrase; 'the fl cat is' is not a noun phrase.
		That is, a noun phrase can contain another phrase within it (such as a verb phrase or another noun phrase), that contains within it another phrase, and so on.
		The noun phrase is one type of phrase among others in contemporary theories of grammar.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /COGSCI/lang/Entries/noun_phrase.html (110 words)

	BBC \| British Council teaching English - Vocabulary - The Noun Phrase (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Because the noun phrase is a quintessential part of every sentence (even if it doesn't appear in the surface structure of a sentence as in "stop!"), it is potentially infinite in length, and it can include any number of other phrases (e.g.
		A noun phrase is either a pronoun or any group of words that can be replaced by a pronoun.
		To sum up, noun phrases are a very simple ideas in themselves, but they can be extremely complex in how they manifest themselves in actual language.
	www.teachingenglish.org.uk /think/vocabulary/noun_phrase.shtml (1009 words)

	The Structure of the Serbian Noun Phrase (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In this dissertation I examine the internal syntax of noun phrases in Serbian.
		Based on headedness tests and word order patterns, I show that noun phrases in Serbian, a language with no articles, are headed by a Noun and not by a functional category, Determiner.
		Rather, I show that a non-derivational theory, such as Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, is more suitable for explaining both the word order and agreement facts pertaining to the Serbian noun phrase.
	www.serbiantranslator.com /abstract.htm (328 words)

	Urban Dictionary: quid pro quo
		Noun Phrase/adjective from Latin: "something in place of/(in exchange) for something." Implies a reciprocal or mutual exchange relationship.
		Noun Phrase: "He stole my bike, I stole his boyfriend, I'd call that quid pro quo."
		A latin phrase that translates into "what for what".
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=quid+pro+quo (320 words)

	Radio Free Nomic - Proosals 451-500
		If the Shock contains any noun phrase then a random noun phrase within the Shock is replaced with the double-quote delimited noun phrase "this rule".
		A noun phrase must consist of a noun; its preceeding pronoun, definite or indefinite article; and any adjectives applied to that noun.
		The Plug is replaced with the double-quote delimited noun phrase "this rule", and the double-quote delimited noun phrase in this sentence is replaced with the Plug.
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	What is a noun phrase?
		A noun phrase is a phrase that has a noun as its head.
		A noun phrase generally includes one or more modifying words, but allowance is usually made for single-word minimal noun phrases that are composed only of a noun or pronoun.
		This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.
	www.sil.org /linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsANounPhrase.htm (80 words)

	The English noun phrase: gradience and change
		The present project approaches the question of gradience and change in the English noun phrase (NP), focussing on gradience between Determination and Modifikation.
		What is traditionally referred to as determination and modification will be viewed here as the prototypical clustering of certain semantic features (e.g.
		Moreover, it will be investigated in how far the existence of gradient constructions can give rise to gradience in use, in that (i) the language provides two constructions to convey the same meaning, or (ii) one construction can be interpreted in two ways.
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	Definition of noun phrase - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
		: a phrase formed by a noun and all its modifiers and determiners; broadly : any syntactic element (as a clause, clitic, pronoun, or zero element) with a noun's function (as the subject of a verb or the object of a verb or preposition) -- abbreviation NP
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	noun phrase - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		noun: a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb
		Phrases that include noun phrase: quantificational noun phrase, weak noun phrase
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	ESL Forums :: View topic - noun phrase
		I have to find out the noun/ preposotonal /verb/ adjectival phrase in the above sentence.
		'The first school for children' is a noun phrase consisting of a noun phrase (the first school' and an adjectival prepositional phrase (for children).
		Noun phrases in grammar can theoretically contain any number of other noun phrases.
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