English and Vietnamese noun phrases Running head: english and vietnamese noun phrase

The words in the determiner category are mutual exclusive so nouns can be modified by only one term from this class. In case there is co-occurrence of an article or a demonstrative and a possessive in a noun phrase, we normally “need to construct an of-phrase with the possessive pronoun”

Possessive determiner and “the” can precede either plural or singular noun whereas “a, this, that” and stressed some modify singular noun, and unstressed some, these, those modify only plural noun. (Berk, 1990) as illustrated below