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• Referential noun phrase
  ...se]]) or noun phrases that are used as [[predicate]]s ( [[predicative noun phrase]]). Typical examples of referential noun phrases are proper names and definite noun phrases like ''this book'', ''my car'' and ''John's children''.
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• Adpositional phrase
  ...isting of a [[head]] [[adposition]] and its complement (generally a [[noun phrase]]). ...(and of course [[AP]] is already taken, as an abbreviation of [[adjective phrase]]).
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• NP
  NP is a common abbreviation for ''[[noun phrase]]''. ...uent that it is often not explained in linguists' work. When talking about noun phrases, linguists often say [enpi:], using the abbreviation also in speech
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• Strong noun phrase
  ...y'' and ''most boys''. Milsark (1977) characterizes strong noun phrases as noun phrases that can not be existentially quantified by ''there'', either becau *[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Strong+noun+phrase&lemmacode=273 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Weak noun phrase
  ...noun phrase''' is a [[noun phrase]] that can be used as the [[subject]] of a [[there-insertion]] sentence: ...ny boys'' are also weak. Milsark (1977) characterizes weak noun phrases as noun phrases that are not quantified, although they may contain indications of c
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• Quantificational noun phrase
  ...[A-bar position]], [[binding]] its [[trace]] the way an [[operator]] binds a [[variable]]. ...nd is decomposed into the 'quantifier' ''every x'' and its restriction ''x a girl''.
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• Speaker's reference
  ...pke (1977) argued that [[referential noun phrase]]s and [[attributive noun phrase]]s have the same semantic reference but possibly different speaker's refere * Kripke, S.A. 1977. ''Speakers Reference and Semantic Reference,'' in:P.A. French, T.E. Uehling, and H.K. Wettstein (eds.), Contemporary Perspectives
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• Existential interpretation
  ...e noun phrase as an [[existential quantifier]]. In (i) the indefinite noun phrase has an existential interpretation because its logical paraphrase involves a (i) a John ate a donut
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• Definiteness restriction
  ...striction is shown by the contrast between (i) and (ii): the [[strong noun phrase]]s in (i) are not compatible with expletive ''there''. (i) a *There is John/the man/every man in the room
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• Restrictive relative clause
  ...is used to restrict the class of entities that can be denoted by a [[noun phrase]]. ...es not restrict the set of books. The difference between a restrictive and a non-restrictive interpretation is often only expressed intonationally.
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• Specific reading
  ...ls the existence of unicorns in the domain of discourse. ''A unicorn'' has a nonspecific reading when John is looking for an arbitrary unicorn. This doe
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• Attribute (as predicate nominal)
  ...to denote the syntactic relation of a predicative noun phrase or adjective phrase, i.e. it corresponds to the term [[predicate nominal]] that is more widespr
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• Quantifier (in Generalized Quantifier Theory)
  '''Quantifier''' is the model-theoretic interpretation of a noun phrase as a set of of sets in [[Generalized Quantifier Theory]].
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• Argument
  ...ment-taking) constituent ([[verb]], [[relational adjective]], [[relational noun]]). In this second, syntactic sense, 'arguments' are also called '[[argumen ...ial expression]] and which is associated with a [[theta-role]] assigned by a lexical [[head]].
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• Strength
  ...s called weak. Sentences of the form in (i) provide a test for strength of a determiner D: (i) [_S [_NP DET CN] is a CN/are CN's]
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• Phrase structure in Skolt Saami
  This page deals with the internal phrase structure in [[Skolt Saami]]. ==Noun Phrases==
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• Term (in logic)
  In formal logic, the term '''term''' is used as a cover term for [[individual expression]]s and [[predicate (in logic)|predic The term ''term'' is also used in a technical sense to denote
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• Predeterminer
  ...rminer''' is an element preceding the [[determiner]] in the English [[noun phrase]]. ...& [[Greenbaum, Sidney]] & [[Leech, Geoffrey]] & [[Svartvik, Jan]]. 1985. ''A comprehensive grammar of the English language.'' London: Longman.
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• Case
  ...means (such as [[stem change]]s), mostly on the [[head]] noun of the noun phrase. ...“Case: an inflectional [[dimension]] of nouns that serves to code the noun phrase's semantic role.”'' (Haspelmath 2002:267)
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• Ellipsis
  The tern ''ellipsis'' is rarely used with a strictly defined meaning. Linguists have often attempted to distinguish var * [[Verb Phrase ellipsis]]
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