Noun phrase

A noun phrase is a referential expression that can serve as an argument of a verb or an adposition and generally consists of a noun plus (in some languages obligatory) determiners plus optional modifiers.

Synonyms

• NP
• term (in Functional Grammar)
• nominal
• nominal group (e.g. Russian imennaja gruppa)
• nominal syntagm (e.g. German Nominalsyntagma)

other languages

• German Nominalphrase