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In linguistics, a determiner phrase (DP) is a type of phrase posited by some theories of syntax. The head of a DP is a determiner, as opposed to a noun. For example in the phrase ''the car'', ''the'' is a determiner and ''car'' is a noun; the two combine to form a phrase, and on the DP-analysis, the determiner ''the'' is head over the noun ''car''. The existence of DPs is a controversial issue in the study of syntax. The traditional analysis of phrases such as ''the car'' is that the noun is the head, which means the phrase is a noun phrase (NP), not a determiner phrase. Beginning in the mid 1980s, an alternative analysis arose that posits the determiner as the head, which makes the phrase a DP instead of an NP.〔Three early works that helped establish the DP-analysis are Szabolski (1983), Hudson (1984), and Abney (1987).〕 The DP-analysis of phrases such as ''the car'' is the majority view in generative grammar today (Government and Binding and Minimalist Program),〔Poole (19??: ???) states that the DP-analysis is the majority stance in generative grammar today.〕 but is a minority stance in the study of syntax and grammar in general. Most frameworks outside of generative grammar continue to assume the traditional NP analysis of noun phrases. For instance, representational phrase structure grammars assume NP, e.g. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, and most dependency grammars such as Meaning-Text Theory, Functional Generative Description, Lexicase Grammar also assume the traditional NP-analysis of noun phrases, Word Grammar being the one exception. Construction Grammar and Role and Reference Grammar also assume NP instead of DP. Furthermore, the DP-analysis does not reach into the teaching of grammar in schools in the English-speaking world, and certainly not in the non-English-speaking world. Since the existence of DPs is a controversial issue that splits the syntax community into two camps (DP vs. NP), this article strives to accommodate both views. Some arguments supporting/refuting both analyses are considered. ==The competing analyses== The point at issue concerns the hierarchical status of determiners. Various types of determiners in English are summarized in the following table: :: Should the determiner in phrases such as ''the car'' and ''those ideas'' be construed as the head of or as a dependent in the phrase? The following trees illustrate the competing analyses, DP vs. NP. The two possibilities are illustrated first using dependency-based structures (of dependency grammars): ::DP vs. NP 5 The a-example show the determiners dominating the nouns, and the b-examples reverse the relationship, since the nouns dominate the determiners. The same distinction is illustrated next using constituency-based trees (of phrase structure grammars): ::DP vs. NP 6 The convention used here employs the words themselves as the labels on the nodes in the structure. Whether a dependency-based or constituency-based approach to syntax is employed, the issue is the same. The constituency-based analysis is doing the same thing as the dependency-based analysis; they both view the one word as head over the other. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Determiner phrase」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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