Noun phrases

Noun phrases are phraseological units (see phraseologism ) that take on the value of a noun (e.g. subject, object, predicate noun, less often an attribute). Their general meaning can be paraphrased as representational, but in many cases this is overlaid by the pronounced connotation (= additional, associative meaning of a word), which express valuation and characterization. They have the morphological categories of gender , number , case and liveliness.

Noun phrases include idioms in which a noun with the formal structure adjective + noun appears as a grammatically dominant component.

For example: "the living dead", "rescue port, lifeline".

A second smaller group are those expressions that are formed from a noun in the nominative and another noun in the required case (with or without a preposition).

Noun phrases can have other forms as well. All that is important for an assignment to this class is its meaning and its related function.

Further examples

• "Shame and Shame"
• "All attention!"
• " Golden Age "
• " Cannon fodder "
• "Hell noise, hell noise"
• "Hero of the day"
• " Guinea pig "
• " Honeymoon ",
• " Common Sense ",
• " Achilles heel "
• " Sisyphean Work "
• " Black Sheep "
• " Stumbling block "
• "Dead silence"
• " Last Will "
• "Monkey heat"
• " The Promised Land "
• "Second violin"

literature

• Rainer Eckert, Kurt Günther: The phraseology of the Russian language . Langenscheidt, Leipzig 1992.