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Head (linguistics)
About: Head (linguistics) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2540 publications have been published within this topic receiving 29023 citations. The topic is also known as: nucleus.
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TL;DR: The results suggest that focused elements are important to the main assertion of the sentence and therefore draw the attachment of upcoming material and therefore demonstrate that both prosodic phrasing and pitch accents can affect basic syntactic structure.
Abstract: Traditionally, pitch accents are understood to relate to the information structure of a sentence and its discourse connections, while prosodic boundaries indicate groupings of words and affect how constituents attach into a syntactic structure. Here, we show that accents also affect syntactic attachment in multiple different syntactic structures. Three auditory questionnaires on ambiguous attachment sentences (such as Tom reported that Bill was bribed [last May]) find that accenting the higher or lower verb (reported or bribed) increases the attachment of the final adverbial phrase as a modifier of the accented verb. A fourth experiment shows that accents on verbs or object nouns (in sentences like Jenny sketched a child [with crayons]) also increase the attachment of the final prepositional phrase to the accented head (sketched with crayons versus a child with crayons). Accent effects were small but consistent across sentences with different levels of bias and did not depend on prosodic boundaries. The r...
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TL;DR: The authors investigated the syntax of verb-echo answers in Japanese and showed that the scope reversal effect of focus-marked phrases with respect to negation is reversed in this construction, a pattern that holds across all grammatical positions.
Abstract: We investigate the syntax of verb-echo answers in Japanese. We first present two arguments showing that this answer form is best analyzed through overt V-to-T-to-C movement, followed by TP-ellipsis. We further show that verb-echo answers exhibit a scope reversal effect: the otherwise robust wide scope reading of focus-marked phrases with respect to negation is reversed in this construction, a pattern that holds across all grammatical positions. This ubiquitous scope reversal pattern indicates that certain instances of head movement in Japanese are syntactic, contrary to the view (Chomsky 2000, 2001) that head move-ment is to be relegated to the postsyntactic, phonological component
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01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: French and Romanian verbless relative adjuncts are incidental adjuncts which have been described as elliptical relative clauses but it is shown that this analysis is not empirically adequate and an alternative non-elliptical analysis is proposed.
Abstract: French and Romanian verbless relative adjuncts are incidental adjuncts which have been described as elliptical relative clauses. We show that this analysis is not empirically adequate and propose an alternative non-elliptical analysis. We analyze verbless relative adjuncts as sentential fragments whose head can be a cluster of phrases. They are marked by a functor phrase which displays selection properties with respect to the head phrase and makes an essential contribution to the semantics of the adjunct. The analysis relies on the interaction of grammatical constraints introduced by various linguistic objects, as well as on a constructional analysis of verbless relative adjuncts distinguishing several subtypes.
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TL;DR: Sherwell on Professor Geoffrey Allen as discussed by the authors discusses the impact of race discrimination on education and race discrimination in the UK, and discusses the role of racism in race discrimination, racism, and sexism.
Abstract: Chris Sherwell on Professor Geoffrey Allen
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