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Instructor

Dr. Shadia Banjar

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Noun PhraseNP (pre-modifiers)+HEAD(+post-modifiers)

Pre-modifiers DET e.g. a car

AP e.g. a new car

N e.g. anew automatic car

Post-modifiers PP e.g. the cat with three legs

Rel clause(S) e.g. the cat which is lying on the mat.

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Pre-modification

Determiners Nouns

Adjective Phrases (AP)

Post-modifiers

Prepositional Phrase

Relativeclause

Determiners:

e.g Some like it hot.

Some people like it hot.

You should have noticed that pronouns appear on their own to form the noun phrase; determiner appear with a head noun.

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There are three kinds of determiners :

Pre-determiners -

Central-determiners-

Post-determiners-

e.g.

I met both my two friends

Pre cent post

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Adjective Phrases (AP):

Adjective phrases are also used to pre-modify nouns

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Adjective phrases (AP)

AP (AdvP)+ AFunction: 1.sC

2.oCe.g. 1. the dog is (quite disgustingly ) fat

2. John made Kate angryORFunction : pre-modifier within NPe.g. The fat brown dog chased a girl

e.g The fat dog chased a girl

SNP VP

DET AP N Vgp NP[trans]

A AUX V DET N

TENSE

The fat dog (past) chased the girlS P dO

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Nouns:Nouns also serve to pre-modify other nouns .

For example :

-I bought a new computer game.

-The electricity board sent her a nasty letter.

In these cases the noun pre-modifier is closely connected to the head noun that the two can almost be considered one word.

This illustrates that when nouns pre-modify other nouns they always come next to the head noun ; nothing else can come between them:

* I bought a computer new game.

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N-Bar e.g. The smart child chased a dog

- Which smart child chased a dog ?

- That one

One = smart child

Smart + child is not full of NP since It doesn't contain a determiner , neither is it simply a noun (N) . So , we use

theory called X-bar theory and call this constituent N-bar theory

N-bar is an intermediate constituent , smaller than NP and larger than N .

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S

NP VP

DET N’ Vgp NP

AP N AUX V DET N

TENSE

the smart child past chased a dog

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