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The Noun and the NP (An overview )

Main points:

Immediate and optional constituents of VPs

Types of modiers: pre- & post modication

Typology of determiners

Relatie paradigmatica

They belong to the same class, to the same distributional

class (a collection of items hich can substitute each other

in a conte!t" , they belong to the class of determiners:

The student waiting outside my ofceis John #$ Vp, VpPost modier e!pressed by a non-nite clauseThe student who is waiting outside my ofceis John. -> %p,

VpPost modier e!pressed by a nite clause

predicat

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pen the 'ar in the pantry

mbiguous: ) analised as ha*ing % sub'ect, is e!pressed by

+ ( imperati*e is sub'ectless ", they e!ist , but are not in thephrase (subiect implicit"

implicit sub'ect

pen-predicate

The jar in the pantry# prepositional phrase ith ad*erbial

meaning

The minimal %P -$ ./01determinerVP 2$ min 3 au!iliaries 2$before the head4in # ma! 5 determiners2$ before the head4odiers are more mobile

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NP STRUCTURE

/g : The noisy peoplepresent

0eterminer #pre mod H (post #"4odier(s"

%P 6tructure:The iediate !onstituents (1)

The ./0 around hich the other constituents of the %P

cluster, it leads along ith the other parts of the sentence/g: the "irl ho The househich Therearea large number of issues

(the head is mar7ed in #old "

The iediate !onstituents ($)The determiners , ie basically closed # system items hich

occur before the nominal head8 according to their position in

the noun phrase (VP" in relation to each other, they may

belong to one of the three subclasses belo:

Predeterminers: eg : all, both, hal, double, twice, such,

what,etc : all the students (all # pre-head determiner", both

my friends, such a pity

6tring of determiners:both determiners belong to the head

and are important : the *ery tall, bron eyed girl

The iediate !onstituents (%) 9entral determiners: eg: the, my, this, some, hich, etc

eg: all thestudents, both myfriends, such apity 2$ Postdeterminers: eg: many, much, se*eral, rst, etc eg: twodays, myrst car, all those

manystudents -$ last one has a full string of determiners

The optional !onstituents (1):

Modi&ers: ie open-class items occurring before andor

after the nominal head(" PR/40I;I9TI%, especially by ad'ecti*es and nouns:

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/g: the tall girl, the *ery tall girl

The optional !onstituents ($)

Postodi&!ation by items andor structures hich follo

the nominal ./0eg: the noisy people present -$ nite the tall girl ho is sitting in the corner -$non-nite the tall girl sitting in the corner to be inter*ieed for

this 'ob- non-nite the tall girl in the corner # non-nite

The optional !onstituents (%)The ma'or structural types of postmodication :

9lausal post-modiers: ;inite clauses : %P < beginning students ho ha*e had no

pre*ious college science course >

%on-nite clauses < to- clauses, ing-classes, and id 9lause"

The optional !onstituents (')

4odiers e!pressed by %P, PP( prepositional phrase", d*P,

d'P and re?e!i*e pronouns in apposition :%P: The opera Carmen

PP: a phone with a couple o buttons on it. .e as 'ust trapped in there ith apparently no ay out

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The noun phrase structure # a closer loo7