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.

What’s a Head?

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.

The Shared Management Role of the Head of Department in English Secondary Schools

Abstract: ally regarded as the middle management tier in a tripartite structure. This structure is traditionally hierarchical, with, at its top level, the head teacher or head teacher and senior managers, e.g. the deputy head teachers, a secondary level of middle managers and a tertiary or grass-roots level of classroom practitioners, i.e. the teachers. Critical national attention is now being focused on the role of these middle managers. Chris Woodhead, the Chief Inspector of Schools, in his 1997 report based on inspections of schools carried out by his Office for Standards in Education (OfStEd) inspection teams during 1995–97, stated that: