Editing Crow language (section)

===Noun-phrase syntax===
An analysis of Crow noun phrase syntax under [[generative grammar]] has yielded the following rules:

# NP → N' (DET)
#
## N' → N
## N' → [s...N' head...]     (relative clause)
## N' → NP N'                (genitive/possessive)
## N' → PP N'                (PP modifier)
# Q → DP Q                  (quantifier phrase)
# DP → DEM NP               (demonstrative phrase)
# NP → NP NP                (appositive)
# NP → S (COMP)             (nominalization)
#
## NP → (NP CONJ)^n          (coordinate NP with ''dak'')
## NP → (N' CONJ)^n DET      (coordinate N' with ''xxo'')

There are two phrases that are subordinate to the NP (noun-phrase): (1) the DP (demonstrative phrase) and (2) the QP (quantifier phrase).

A noun phrase can be marked as definite or indefinite by a suffixed [[determiner (class)|determiner]] (DET). The definite suffix is /-sh/ and the indefinite suffix is /-m/.
**''iisáakshee-'''sh''''' (definite)
***'the young man'
**''bía-'''m''''' (indefinite)
***'a woman'

The determiner suffix is attached to the final word of the noun phrase, not just the agentive noun.
{{interlinear|lang=cro|indent=3
|<nowiki>[[</nowiki>bíakaate shoop-úu]-'''m''' húulee-'''sh''' aw-ákee]-'''sh'''
|girl four-PL-DET yesterday-DET {{gcl|1A|1st-person A-set pronominal}}-see-DET
|'the four girls I saw yesterday'}}

'''[[Relative clause|Relative Clauses]]''': N' → [s...N' head...]
{{interlinear|lang=cro|indent=3
|['''iisáakshi-m''' búupchee-sh ak-ataalée]-sh aw-ákaa-k
|young.man-DET ball-DET {{gcl|REL|relativizer}}-steal-DET {{gcl|1A|1st-person A-set pronominal}}-see-DECL
|'I saw the young man who stole the ball'}}

'''[[Genitive case|Genitive Clauses]]''': N' → NP N'
{{interlinear|lang=cro|indent=3
|[Clara-sh [is-íilaalee<nowiki>]]</nowiki> sapéen ataalí-?
|Clara-DET {{gcl|3POS|3rd-person possessive}}-car who steal-INTERR
|'who stole Clara's car?'}}

'''[[Preposition and postposition|Postpositional Phrases]]''': N' → PP N'
{{interlinear|lang=cro|indent=3
|<nowiki>[[</nowiki>dii-héel-uua] ham]-dappií-o-lahtaa
|{{gcl|2B|2nd-person B-set pronominal}}-among-PL some-kill-PL-even.if
|'even if they kill some of you'}}

'''[[Quantification (linguistics)|Quantifier Phrases]]''': Q → DP Q
There are two classes of quantifiers that are distinguished syntactically. The first class heads a quantifier phrases that takes a demonstrative (or in its stead, a noun phrase) as its complement: ''xaxúa''.
{{interlinear|lang=cro|indent=3
|hinne bía-sh <nowiki>[[</nowiki>hileen [bachée-sh<nowiki>]]</nowiki> xaxúa] áxpa-m
|this woman-DET these men-DET all marry-DS
|this woman married all these men}}

The second class is a stative verb that may function as a nominal modifier. This class includes: ''ahú'' 'many, much', ''hawa'' 'some', ''kooshtá'' 'few', ''sáawi'' 'how many, so many, some', and the numerals. This class may also be followed by a determiner. They may also function as clausal predicates.

'''[[Demonstrative|Demonstrative Phrases]]''': Q → DP Q
Demonstratives are deictic words; in Crow, they occur phrase-initially. They can also cooccur with determiners (ex. 'this the horse').

'''[[Apposition|Appositives]]''': NP → NP NP
/ko/ (demonstrative) and /kon/ (appositive) are used to modify each other.
{{interlinear|lang=cro|indent=3
|['''ko''' bachée-sh] ['''kon'''] día-k
|that man-DET PRO do-DECL
|'that man is the one who did it'}}