Noun phrase

A noun phrase is a referential expression that can serve as an argument of a verb or an adposition and generally consists of a noun plus (in some languages obligatory) determiners plus optional modifiers.

Synonyms

 * NP
 * term (in Functional Grammar)
 * nominal
 * nominal group (e.g. Russian imennaja gruppa)
 * nominal syntagm (e.g. German Nominalsyntagma)

other languages

 * German Nominalphrase