What are Noun Phrases?

"Native speaker's competence in their native languages is reflected in their intuitions about sentence well-formedness, and their intuitions about sentence-structure on the other."

所以說，學linguistics就是在建立對well-formedness (grammatical)和structure的判斷能力

linguistics分為phonology、morphology、semantics和syntax四種

Phrase Marker: a representation of the immediate constituent structure of a linguistic construction

Some assertions:
Sentences have hierarchical constituent structure.
Each constituent in a sentence belongs to a specific syntactic
category.
The categorical constituent structure of sentences can be represented
in the form of a Phrase Marker.

Structure of Phrase Markers:
HEADS, SPECIFIERS and COMPLEMENTS

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