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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: ABAI 2017 VOSC-P4-V2, Verbal Operants and Syntactic Constructions: English Noun Phrases Point 4 Overview of English Noun Phrases, Noun phrases (NPs) are groups of words that cluster in regular patterns around nouns. Where Nouns are words (or complex words) that are names for entities in the cultural environment., Determiners - Autoclitics of the speaker's or listener's relation to the entity named by the primary response in terms of identifiability, location, possession, or quantity. and Prepositional phrases - Groups of words consisting of a preposition followed by a noun phrase. The preposition is a name for a relation between the two nouns. The relations are often locative or possessive., The purpose here is to show that these are products of verbal operants. However, It will be convenient to use some common syntactic terms during this talk., Participial phrases - Groups of words that are essentially reduced relative clauses. The subject of the clause is not emitted, but is coreferential with the noun that the phrase modifies. The phrase itself begins with a participial form of the clause. e.g., Participial phrases - "the boy scoring the goal . . ." "the goal scored by the boy . . .", Demonstratives - "this, that, . . . " - evoke listeners' responses to the relative position of the entity named with the noun. and Possessives - "my, your, their . . ." - evoke listeners' responses to the relative possession of the entity named with the noun., Adjectives - Words that name some descriptive feature of a noun and immediately precede it in the phrase. and Determiners - Autoclitics of the speaker's or listener's relation to the entity named by the primary response in terms of identifiability, location, possession, or quantity., Articles - "the, a" - Evoke responses related to listeners' ability to respond appropriately to the identifiability of the entity named with the noun. and Demonstratives - "this, that, . . . " - evoke listeners' responses to the relative position of the entity named with the noun., Adjectival relative clauses - Groups of words that pattern like clauses. One of the noun phrases in the clause is coreferential with the noun that the clause modifies. e.g., Adjectival relative clauses - "the boy who scored a goal . . ." "the goal that the boy scored . . ." - evokes the relation of the entity named with the noun to its role in another event or state., Overview of English Noun Phrases Point 4a The existence of units commonly called nouns, and structures called noun phrases, will not be presupposed here,, Determiners - Autoclitics of the speaker's or listener's relation to the entity named by the primary response in terms of identifiability, location, possession, or quantity. e.g., Articles - "the, a" - Evoke responses related to listeners' ability to respond appropriately to the identifiability of the entity named with the noun., Overview of English Noun Phrases Point 4b Noun phrases (NPs) are groups of words that cluster in regular patterns around nouns., Possessives - "my, your, their . . ." - evoke listeners' responses to the relative possession of the entity named with the noun. and Quantifiers - "no, all, quite a few . . ." - evoke listeners' responses to quantity of the entity named with the noun., Adjectival relative clauses - Groups of words that pattern like clauses. One of the noun phrases in the clause is coreferential with the noun that the clause modifies. and Participial phrases - Groups of words that are essentially reduced relative clauses. The subject of the clause is not emitted, but is coreferential with the noun that the phrase modifies. The phrase itself begins with a participial form of the clause., Overview of English Noun Phrases Point 4c A conventional description of noun phrases., Prepositional phrases - Groups of words consisting of a preposition followed by a noun phrase. The preposition is a name for a relation between the two nouns. The relations are often locative or possessive. e.g., Prepositional phrases - "a book on the table . . . " "the record of the team . . ." "those uniforms for our team . . .", The existence of units commonly called nouns, and structures called noun phrases, will not be presupposed here, but The purpose here is to show that these are products of verbal operants., Nouns are words (or complex words) that are names for entities in the cultural environment. also, Other word types and word cluster types that occur in noun phrases include determiners, adjectives, prepositional phrases, participial phrases, and adjectival relative clauses., A conventional description of noun phrases. Including: Adjectives - Words that name some descriptive feature of a noun and immediately precede it in the phrase., It will be convenient to use some common syntactic terms during this talk. so The terms "commonly" and "conventionally" will be used with these terms.