Funcionamento da lingua (periodo, oracao, paragrafo e texto)

Introduction
The preceding chapters of this subject (Syntax) focused precisely on the major phrases (NP,VP,Vgrp, and AdvP) structured into sentences. The basic VP was shown to comprise a Vgrp complemented by NPs, APs and PPs. Therefore this work will introduce and deal with the main aspects in chapter 7. In this chapter, the main focus of attention will be on the internal structure of NP and the elements to be found within NP. For instance, NP, in the basic case, has just two immediate constituents: DET (determiner) and NOM (nominal).
Within the NOM, we can also find a further constituent which is pre-modifier and it by its time includes quantifying adjectives (QA).
Yet within this chapter, “More on Noun Phrase”, the work will also focus on the Participle Phrase.
Purposes
The work in presentation has as its purposes, the following:
General:
• To give an overview about Noun Phrases;
Specific:
• To talk about Determiners; Pre-determiners; Pre-modifiers in NOM; Quantifying adjectives and Participle Phrase.

Participle Phrases (PartP)
Pre-modifiers in NOM
Pre-determiners
Determiner
Determiners
Determiners are a fixed set of “grammatical” words which give information relating to definiteness and indefiniteness (roughly, whether thing referred to by NP is familiar to both speakers and hearer or not) and inform about quantity and proportion, (Roberts, 19…, 154).
Determiner is a word, phrase or affix that occurs together with a noun or noun phrase and serves to express the reference that noun or noun phrase in the context. www.wikipedia.com accessed on 4th/ 03/2013, at 14:11mn.
When the people or things that you are talking about have already been mentioned, you use specific determiners:
• The definite article: the
• Demonstratives: this, that, these and those;
• Possessives: my, your, his, her, its, our and their;
e.g1: the man began to run towards the boy.
e.g2: Young people do not like these operas.
e.g3: Her face was very red.
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