In linguistics, a determiner phrase (DP) is a syntactic category, a phrase headed by a determiner. The noun phrase is strictly speaking a determiner phrase, and NP designates a constituent of the noun phrase, taken to be the complement of the determiner. This is opposed to the traditional view that determiners are specifiers of the noun phrase. The DP analysis of noun phrases is the majority view in generative grammar today, but it is a minority stance in the study of theoretical syntax in general.