An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that identifies, or provides further information about, another noun phrase.
The structural relationship between noun and noun phrase, and noun phrase and nominal clause is carried out respectively by the opposite means of expansion and condensation.
Contains a proper noun or proper-noun phrase referring to a person, possibly including any or all of the person's forenames, surnames, honorifics, added names, etc.
I can't think of an expression that directly applies as a noun phrase for this type of person.
Therefore, we may conclude that there is big difference in semantics classification and reference between noun phrase as antecedent of inert pronoun and that of non-conceptual anaphora.
This paper studies the function of and the constraints on the premodifier in the noun phrase of English from the perspective of subcategorization.
Agents can not only be proper nouns, indefinite noun phrases, unanimated noun phrases, but also be gerunds and clauses.
The traditional formal semantics holds that all the indefinite noun phrases should be interpreted as existentially quantified phrases.
The elements in each appositive construction are to be nouns, pronouns and noun phrases, represent the same concept and can be turned into a definitive sentence.
Today’s search, they say, primarily finds topics, or noun phrases — a person’s name, a city, a product, a disease and so on.
