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.