However, there are many types of nouns and noun phrases in English, and it can be difficult to know if a particular noun takes a singular verb (such as DOES / HAS / AM / IS ) or a plural verb (DO / ...

Narrator: Looks like you've caught more than you expected there. Fisherman: Help! There's a beast. I'm trapped on the lake. My boat is stuck. Narrator: Nice use of your nouns there. Beast, lake and ...

The determinatives of English are the little words that occur at the beginning of many noun phrases, often as a matter of grammatical necessity: words like the indefinite article But I think I know of ...

This article provides an analysis of the prepositional phrases of Maliseet-Passamaquoddy, an Eastern Algonquian language of New Brunswick and Maine. It establishes that these phrases may function as ...

The most critical attribute of human language is its unbounded combinatorial nature: smaller elements can be combined into larger structures on the basis of a grammatical system, resulting in a ...

Legon Journal of the Humanities, Vol. 30, No. 2 (2019), pp. 141-166 (26 pages) Adjectives in definite Determiner Phrases of Zarma, a Nilo-Saharan language trigger an additional (suffixed/base-merged) ...

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