The following illustratins indicate the type of attributes that a head takes within a noun phrase.
(a) Noun phrase + Verb phrase
(i)
moati naakinjou
1 2
'The girl walks'
1 2
(ii)
boe naakinjoru
1 2
'Bolli walks'
1 2
(iii)
ava:u naakinjou
1 2
'She walks'
1 2
(iv)
a:ro: naakinjoru
1 2
'Somebody walks'
1 2
(b)
The (i) and (ii) above can take the determiners as their attributes, whereas the other two with pronoun and an indefinite pronoun as head (iii) and (iv) respectively cannot take the determiners or any others as attributes.
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