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A noun phrase – or NP or nominal – is a phrase that usually has a noun or pronoun as its head, and has the same grammatical functions as a noun. Noun phrases are very common cross-linguistically, and
Those five beautiful shiny Arkansas Black apples is a noun phrase of which apples is the head. To test, a single pronoun can replace the whole noun phrase, as in "They look delicious".
In linguistics, head directionality is a proposed parameter that classifies languages according to whether they are head-initial or head-final. The head is the element that determines the category of
Governor-Dependent relationship in SVO Head-initial languages