Review of the linguistic literature on the problems of Phrase Theory in Modern Linguistics

Table 6
Statistical analysis of the Noun phrases used in K. Macleod’s “The Wrock and Rune”

№	Types of Phrases	Frequency	Probabilities
1.	Adjective + Noun	0,36	0,047
2.	Pronoun + Noun	0,15	0,02
3.	Numeral + Noun	0,061	0,0078
4.	Participle I + Noun	0,0021	0,0003
5.	Participle II +Noun	0,0078	0,001
6.	Noun’s + Noun	0,015	0,02
7.	Noun + Prep + Noun	0,26	0,034
8.	Noun + and + Noun	0,0014	0,00018
9.	Adjective + Prep + Noun	0,048	0,0062
10.	Noun + Noun	0,091	0,011

These resultative phrase can then take the ending ko and become modifiers of the Noun, as we further illustrate in:”the ring bought yesterday in Bilbo”, “the branch bruoght to the nest by the bird”. (E. Caldwell)

We have phrase containing a resultative phrase headed by ta, which in turn contains a participle “bought” and a locative and a time adverbial belonging to it. We see a phrase containing a resultative phrase headed by the morpheme with contains a participle “brought” and its subject argument “the bird”, plus a postpositional complement “to the nest”. Ordinal numerals can be considered a subtype of phrases. They are headed by the morpheme.
Occasionally, phrases can appear apposite to the right of the Noun phrase, particularly if it is headed by a proper name. This type of construction has been considered in example (12), within the discussion of proper Nouns.
The word “other”, “another”, does not naturally fall under any of the categories we have considered so far. Distributional facts discriminate it form quantifiers, determiners and other complements of the Noun, always precede the Noun, and never follow it: “another happy girl”, “girl happy other one”.
Other attaches to a full Noun Phrase, which must conform to the description provided so far. When the Noun Phrase is complete, best can always appear at the beginning of it: “These other happy three from Bilbo”, “Mother’s other three friends from Bilbo”.
The modifier beste must also be placed following relative clauses which, in general, tend to be the most external modifier of the two noun: “that other friend that has arrived”.¹
It appears therefore that other can be replaced in between complements, but always preceding, that is taking scope over numeral