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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 authors analyzed the different structures of nominal phrases in Chinese that are able to express indefiniteness, definiteness and genericity, and provided more evidence which could verify that the determiner phrase hypothesis is also applicable for Chinese in which the head could be the numeral yī (one), the demonstrative zhe/na (this/that) or even the classifier depending on specific cases.
Abstract: The Determiner Phrase Hypothesis proposed by Abney (1987) was thought as an important theory of Universal Grammar and has raised great interests in Chinese linguistics. Many studies (Li, 1996, 1998; Cheng y Sybesma, 1998; Liu, 2002; Wen, 2010) focus on verifying whether such a hypothesis suits for Chinese, a language without system of article, yet more evidence of cross language studies still are in need. In this paper, we analyzed the different structures of nominal phrases in Chinese that are able to express, respectively, the indefiniteness, definiteness and genericity. These analyses provided more evidence which could verify that the Determiner Phrase Hypothesis is also applicable for Chinese in which the head could be the numeral yī (one), the demonstrative zhe/na (this/that) or even the classifier depending on specific cases. To provide further proof, this paper also discussed the properties of the bare nouns of Chinese in order to find the possibility of their appearance in different syntactic positions and their different semantic references.
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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, a Matching Analysis with Vehicle Change (MVC) was proposed to capture the reconstruction pattern in German relative clauses, where only the external head is interpreted and the absence of Principle C effects.
Abstract: In this paper I argue in favor of a Matching Analysis for German relative clauses. The Head Raising Analysis is shown to fail to account for parts of the reconstruction pattern in German, especially cases where only the external head is interpreted and the absence of Principle C effects. I propose a Matching Analysis with Vehicle Change and make consistent assumptions about possible deletion operations in relatives so that the entire pattern can be captured by one analysis which therefore proves superior to previous ones. 1
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01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the rationale behind the Head/Modifier approach, which has been developed for English, and investigate its applicability to Arabic texts, in particular, how it has to be adapted in order to cope with the rather distinct syntactic particularities of the languages involved.
Abstract: In order to raise the precision of Information Retrieval systems, linguistically derived phrases may be used besides the traditional (single) keywords for both the document representation and the queries. Such phrases may either take the form of (monolithical) collocations or, as shown in this paper, of Head/Modifier pairs representing dependency structures in the text. In this paper we describe the rationale behind the Head/Modifier approach, which has been developed for English, and investigate its applicability to Arabic texts. In particular, we show how it has to be adapted in order to cope with the rather distinct syntactic particularities of the languages involved.
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