ABSTRACT

This chapter sets out the following structural units: the noun phrase, consisting of noun and modifier, the annexation unit, dependent noun phrases of all types, together with the remaining phrase structures, which usually share one or more of the features of these categories. Subordinating or annexation structures, in which the head word is a noun, adjective, adverbial or preposition (al), and the subordinated element are in the oblique case. Asyndetic sequences of adjectives occur when the two adjectives are inseparable qualities of the noun, or when the meanings of the adjectives are very similar. Asyndetic sequences of adjectives occur when the two (or more) adjectives are inseparable qualities of the noun, or when the meanings of the adjectives are very similar. In such sequences the determinative element appears to precede the qualitative one which only describes the noun. Adjectives are occasionally annexed to the noun they qualify for emphasis.