Chapter 4. The noun phrase

A noun phrase may be a single noun or a group of elements that act as a constituent in which a noun is the head. Syntactically, a noun phrase may express the subject, the direct object, the indirect object of the verb or the object of an adposition. The structure of the noun phrase may be modified by different elements: determiners [LEXICON 3.6], adjectives [LEXICON 3.4], numerals [LEXICON 3.10.1] or quantifiers [LEXICON 3.10.2]. This chapter presents the syntactic structure of different types of noun phrases in LSC classified depending on the element that modifies it.