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==Origin==
[[Latin]] phrasis, from [[Greek]], from phrazein to point out, [[explain]], tell
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 1530}
==Definitions==
*1: a characteristic [[manner]] or style of [[expression]] : diction
*2a : a brief [[expression]]; especially : catchphrase
:b : [[word]]
*3: a short musical [[thought]] typically two to four measures long closing with a cadence
*4: a [[word]] or group of [[words]] forming a syntactic constituent with a single grammatical [[function]] <an adverbial phrase>
*5: a series of [[dance]] movements comprising a section of a [[pattern]]
==Description==
In grammar, a phrase is a group of words functioning as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence.
For example, the store at the end of the street is a phrase. It acts like a noun. It can further be broken down into two shorter phrases functioning as adjectives: at the end and of the street, a shorter prepositional phrase within the longer prepositional phrase. At the end of the street could be replaced by an adjective such as nearby: the nearby house or even the house nearby. The end of the street could also be replaced by another noun, such as the crossroads to produce the house at the crossroads.
Most phrases have a central word defining the type of phrase. This word is called the head of the phrase. Some phrases, however, can be headless. For example, the rich is a noun phrase composed of a determiner and an adjective without a noun.
==Types of phrases==
Phrases may be classified by the type of head taken by them:
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepositional_phrase Prepositional phrase] (PP) with a preposition as head (e.g. in [[love]], over the [[rainbow]]). Languages using postpositions instead have postpositional phrases. The two types are sometimes commonly referred to as appositional phrases.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_phrase Noun phrase] (NP) with a noun as head (e.g. the black cat, a cat on the mat)
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb_phrase Verb phrase] (VP) with a verb as head (e.g. eat cheese, jump up and down)
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appositive Appositive] It renames noun as a pronoun and are always placed between commas (e.g. "Bob, my annoying [[neighbor]], is short")
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute Absolute] Modifies the entire sentence and are linked with commas. (e.g. "Mike threw the book, his eyes red")
A phrase is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax syntactic] [[structure]] having syntactic properties derived from its head.
==Complexity==
A complex phrase consists of several [[words]], whereas a simple phrase consists of only one word. This terminology is especially often used with verb phrases:
* simple past and present are simple phrases, which require just one verb
* complex verbs have one or two aspects added and hence require additional two or three [[words]]
"[[Complex]]," which is phrase-level, is often [[confused]] with "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics) compound]", which is [[word]]-level. However, there are certain [[phenomena]] that [[formally]] seem to be phrases but semantically are more like compounds, such as "[[women]]'s magazines," which has the form of a possessive noun phrase, but which refers (just like a compound) to one specific [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexeme lexeme] (i.e. a magazine for women and not a magazine owned by a woman).
==Semiotic approaches to the concept of "phrase"==
In more [[semiotic]] approaches to [[language]], such as the more cognitivist versions of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_grammar construction grammar], a phrasal structure is not only a certain [[formal]] combination of word types whose features are inherited from the head. Here each phrasal structure also [[expresses]] some type of conceptual content, be it specific or [[abstract]].
[[Category: Languages and Literature]]
==Origin==
[[Latin]] phrasis, from [[Greek]], from phrazein to point out, [[explain]], tell
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 1530}
==Definitions==
*1: a characteristic [[manner]] or style of [[expression]] : diction
*2a : a brief [[expression]]; especially : catchphrase
:b : [[word]]
*3: a short musical [[thought]] typically two to four measures long closing with a cadence
*4: a [[word]] or group of [[words]] forming a syntactic constituent with a single grammatical [[function]] <an adverbial phrase>
*5: a series of [[dance]] movements comprising a section of a [[pattern]]
==Description==
In grammar, a phrase is a group of words functioning as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence.
For example, the store at the end of the street is a phrase. It acts like a noun. It can further be broken down into two shorter phrases functioning as adjectives: at the end and of the street, a shorter prepositional phrase within the longer prepositional phrase. At the end of the street could be replaced by an adjective such as nearby: the nearby house or even the house nearby. The end of the street could also be replaced by another noun, such as the crossroads to produce the house at the crossroads.
Most phrases have a central word defining the type of phrase. This word is called the head of the phrase. Some phrases, however, can be headless. For example, the rich is a noun phrase composed of a determiner and an adjective without a noun.
==Types of phrases==
Phrases may be classified by the type of head taken by them:
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepositional_phrase Prepositional phrase] (PP) with a preposition as head (e.g. in [[love]], over the [[rainbow]]). Languages using postpositions instead have postpositional phrases. The two types are sometimes commonly referred to as appositional phrases.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_phrase Noun phrase] (NP) with a noun as head (e.g. the black cat, a cat on the mat)
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb_phrase Verb phrase] (VP) with a verb as head (e.g. eat cheese, jump up and down)
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appositive Appositive] It renames noun as a pronoun and are always placed between commas (e.g. "Bob, my annoying [[neighbor]], is short")
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute Absolute] Modifies the entire sentence and are linked with commas. (e.g. "Mike threw the book, his eyes red")
A phrase is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax syntactic] [[structure]] having syntactic properties derived from its head.
==Complexity==
A complex phrase consists of several [[words]], whereas a simple phrase consists of only one word. This terminology is especially often used with verb phrases:
* simple past and present are simple phrases, which require just one verb
* complex verbs have one or two aspects added and hence require additional two or three [[words]]
"[[Complex]]," which is phrase-level, is often [[confused]] with "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics) compound]", which is [[word]]-level. However, there are certain [[phenomena]] that [[formally]] seem to be phrases but semantically are more like compounds, such as "[[women]]'s magazines," which has the form of a possessive noun phrase, but which refers (just like a compound) to one specific [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexeme lexeme] (i.e. a magazine for women and not a magazine owned by a woman).
==Semiotic approaches to the concept of "phrase"==
In more [[semiotic]] approaches to [[language]], such as the more cognitivist versions of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_grammar construction grammar], a phrasal structure is not only a certain [[formal]] combination of word types whose features are inherited from the head. Here each phrasal structure also [[expresses]] some type of conceptual content, be it specific or [[abstract]].
[[Category: Languages and Literature]]
