... THE SYNTACTIC REGULARITY OF ENGLISH NOUN PHRASES Lita Taylor, Claire Grover, Ted Briscoe ~ Department of Linguistics University of Lancaster Ballrigg Lanes., ... at all of a two-way partition of noun phrase types into a group of high-frequency, well-formed constructions and a group of unique or rare 'deviant' constructions; instead noun phrase ... 'rare' types, defined in terms of rate of occurrence relative to the rate of occurrence of the commonest type, will crop up fairly often in naturally occurring samples of NPs. For ins- tahoe, if...