Grammatical category (or phrase) which normally contains a noun (fruit, happiness, Phil) or a pronoun (I, someone, one) as its head and which can be modified (=specified) in many ways. Possible modifiers include: (a) adjuncts, which in the form of...

Term introduced by Donnellan (1966) to distinguish between various readings of definite noun phrases. The sentence Caroline wants to see the play that is being presented at the theater tonight is ambiguous. Either the speaker means a particular play,...

n. (NP) One of the principal syntactic categories, and one which appears to be perhaps universally present in languages. Functionally, a noun phrase may be defined as any category which can bear some grammatical relation within a sentence, such as...

See also grammar, phrase, parts of speech A noun phrase, like a noun clause, functions as a noun in a sentence. Examples of noun phrases are: the largest cabbage; a red dress; my favourite nephew. A noun phrase differs from a noun clause in that the...

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.[1] The modifiers may...