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(4) Noun phrase template for Mandarin Chinese (DEM) (NUM) (CLASSIFIER) (ADJ)* (NOMINALIZER) NOUN A noun phrase of this structure is illustrated in (5a): (5)a. nà sÄn dÇo mÄilì-de hÅ«a DIST.DEM three CLF beautiful-NMLZ flower âthose three beautiful flowersâ Alternate orders are ungrammatical, as illustrated in (5b): (5)b. * sÄn three dÇo nà hÅ«a mÄilì-de CLF DIST.DEM flower beautiful-NMLZ The fact that the order of noun phrase elements is fixed reveals that noun phrases have an internal grammatical structure. Such structuring is evidence that noun phrases are cohesive syntactic units. This argument is summarized in Sidebar 6.6. SIDEBAR 6.6 Argument 3: The order of elements within noun phrases is fixed, showing that noun phrases have internal structure, which indicates that they are grammatical units.
