Found:
strong noun phrase
SEMANTICS: a noun phrase that is excluded (by the
definiteness restriction)
as the subject of a there-insertion
sentence. The term was introduced by Milsark (1977) to cover both ordinary definite
noun phrases like the boy, but also proper names, pronouns, and quantified
noun phrases like every boy and most boys. Milsark (1977)
characterizes strong noun phrases as noun phrases that can not be existentially
quantified by there, either because they are proper names or pronouns or
because they are already quantified (by the, those, every etc.).
LIT. | Milsark, G.L. (1977) |