Noun and Genitival Phrases
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the syntax of nouns, determiners, and pronouns
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Nouns may take a PP complement, and adjectives come after that. Numerals appear on the left side of the noun, whenever the noun is SGSingular (number)
one countable entity or PLPlural (number)
more than one/few and there are no quantifying adjectives.
Determiners may appear on the left of a noun, and nouns may be followed by relative phrases. Ordinals appear to the left of the determiners, where the ordinals are derived from numerals.
Pronouns do not take adjectives, prepositional phrases, or numerals, but may take ordinals and relative phrases. Genitive pronouns function as determiners.
There are three genitival prepositions, with various uses:
1. Y's X: ownership, quasipermanent; intrinsic, inalienable
Durative possession, such as with land, vehicles, titles, and jobs
Intrinsic possession, such as with family, (non-removed) body parts, actions (esp. past), arts, speech, personality, and reverse-attributives*.
2. Y has X: possessive, holding, having
When a container (Y) of some sort is being used to measure an UCNTUncountable (number)
non-count, uncountable, mass noun (X), such as with food, boxes, and liquids.
Intangible possession, such as with memories, thoughts, feelings
Extrinsic possession, such as with tools, possessions, what has been handed to someone (Y)
3. X of Y: attributive, related to, corresponding to
When a noun (X) is made of a substance (Y), such as with groups, most literal measurement units, and indirectly counting the referents of pronouns "the three people of them".
Attributive possession, such as with identification (identifying Y), anything describing or about something (Y)
Proximity: nearby things (the car by you, not me)
The syntax of prepositions is explained further in the AdX Phrases article. ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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