ABSTRACT
Section 14.1.2 suggested that the internal structure of the DP can be represented as in (1), where the determiner D and the noun N are the °heads of the °projections DP and NP, respectively. The dots indicate the positions available for possible other elements such as °modifiers and °complements. The present chapter is concerned with the various forms of modification of the lexical projection NP; for a detailed discussion of °complementation in the NP, the reader is referred to Chapter 15, and for a discussion of modifiers in the functional projection DP to Chapter 20. The relation between the two nouns in binominal constructions such as een reep chocola ‘a bar [of] chocolate’ is of a different nature and will be discussed in Chapter 17.
[DP … D … [NP … N ….]]
Apart from the obligatory head noun and its (optional or obligatory) complements, each noun phrase can contain one or more modifiers. These modifiers can be categorized according to their function, form and position.