Nominal group
A noun group is a sequence of words that describes simple things. For example, the phrase "the nice guy who was sitting at the table with Mr. Stahl up front" is a noun group because it describes a limited material thing in the situation, ie an entity .
Sometimes the word is noun phrase as a synonym of noun phrase recognized. Nevertheless, there are two main differences between the functional concept noun phrase and the formal concept noun phrase . First, there is a difference between group and phrase . Halliday described this difference as follows: "a phrase differs from a group in that the phrase looks like a more compact sentence, while the group looks like an expanded word". Second, the functional concept of the noun group differs from the concept of the noun phrase because the first is based on the thing being described, while the second is based on limb classes.
That is why you can look at the nominal groups twice for beer and two mugs of beer in a functionally similar manner: you order a certain amount of alcoholic substance. In contrast, one has to formally note that two beer contains a single noun , while the phrase two mugs of beer consists of two nouns. In formal descriptions, the rule of "one noun phrase per noun" is usually enforced and the phrase two mugs of beer would have to be described as one noun phrase within another.
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Matthiessen: Review - MAK Halliday, Introduction to Functional Grammar . In: Language . tape 65 , no. 4 , December 1989, pp. 862-871 , doi : 10.2307 / 414947 .