Noun phrase structures in English and German are compared in this study with an emphasis on their morphological traits and syntactic arrangements.  Although the core determiner + adjective + noun structure is shared by both languages, there are notable distinctions in case marking, gender differences, adjective-noun agreement, and word order flexibility.  English noun phrases have a fixed word order, are structurally simpler, and lack grammatical gender and case agreement. On the other hand, because of a strong case system, German noun phrases have more syntactic freedom and demand adjective agreement with the noun in gender, number, and case.

 Using a database of 200 sentences, 100 from each language, the research looks at the distribution and frequency of important noun phrase properties.  The findings support the notion that German noun phrases exhibit greater structural variety and morphological complexity.  The Tübingen Treebank and other tools were utilized for morphological labeling and syntactic parsing.  The study emphasizes the ways in which these variations affect language learning and teaching and makes the case that a better comprehension of noun phrase structure can benefit students, teachers, and linguists.  The results lay the groundwork for future research on NP behavior in natural language use and add to current debates in contrastive grammar.

English, German, Language, Noun phrase, Comparative linguistic, Grammatical functions.

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