Hi guy,

I am writing a paper about Turkish noun phrase and my professor asked me to provide the longest possible noun phrase in Turkish.

I mean a noun phrase with different modifiers like for example the English noun phrase "the three beautiful blue big baloons"

thanks

Hmmm...if you use verbal nouns and embedded sentences I guess you can prolong it until half a kilometre or so.

from your example i generated a similar one:

tatlı, sulu, kırmızı, lezzetli, organik, taze, dalından yeni koparılmış, "gel beni ye!" der gibi duran, insanın iştahını kabartan iki kilo elma.

No?

when it gets longer, it gets weirder.
teorically a page of single noun phrase possible but makes no sense. when you are at the end of your word, listener may forget the beginning!

You Turks are using quite long noun phrases in real life. The pink part is all one NP and I think this is a typical structure in newspaper articles:

Sultanahmet Camisi’nin arkasında ”Arasta” tabir edilen ve yangın geçirdiği için yıllarca kullanılmadıktan sonra restore edilen çarşının giriş çıkışlarındaki sebillerin içlerinin çinilerle kaplı olduğunu, ancak o çinilerin birileri tarafından kırılıp götürüldüğünü anlatan Prof. Dr. Eyice, şunları söyledi:...

This is an adjective phrase abla. But if you add a noun after Prof. Dr. Eyice and if you connect it with a genetive suffix. It becomes a noun phrase.

Bence, Prof. Dr. Eyice is a proper noun and the main word of that phrase. Everything else is modifying it.

It is a special Turkish way of quoting, quite difficult for a learner to read.

Exactly. But we name the phrases according to modifier.

adjective(s) + noun = adjective phrase

noun(s) +genetive/Ø + noun= noun phrase

adjective phrase(noun) +genetive/Ø + noun= noun phrase

It seems that we have two different definitions for noun/nominal phrase.

In my vocabulary NP is a phrase whose head is a noun. It FUNCTIONS as a noun.

In gokuyum´s definition it seems to be the INNER STRUCTURE that counts.

It is no problem as long as the questioner knows what he/she means by the term.

But I wonder why. Maybe it has to do with the inner logics of the Turkish compounds. Btw, I find three alternatives for noun phrase: isim tamlaması sounds very much like what gokuyum is talking about, but do ad dizilimi and ad öbeği mean the same thing?