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What’s a Head?
William Croft
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The notion of head is a fairly recent one, originating in more or less its modern form (as far as I know) in Sweet (1891) as discussed by the authors, and it is a generalization over the concepts of agreement, government and modification in traditional grammar.Abstract:
In this paper, I will critically examine the notion of head in grammatical theory, focusing on the debate between Zwicky (1985) and Hudson (1987), but also discussing recent proposals regarding functional heads in the generative literature. The notion of head is a fairly recent one, originating in more or less its modern form (as far as I know) in Sweet (1891). Specifically, the notion of head is a generalization over the concepts of agreement, government and modification in traditional grammar. In fact, Zwicky extends the notion of head to include grammatical relations such as that between the auxiliar and the main verb and the complementizer and its complement (in English). In its most general form, headhood represents the hypothesis that there is a general characterization of the ‘dominant’ member of any asymmetric dependency relation in grammar.read more
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