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.

Verbal Gerunds As Mixed Categories In Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

Abstract: Grammatical categories are central to generative theories of grammar. In many ways, the study of syntax really is just the study of grammatical categories. Problems that have cropped up with the originally proposed parts of speech have been solved by decomposing them into bundles of binary features ±N and ±V. Despite this success, there remains a class of constructions, known as trans-categorial or simply mixed category constructions, which do not fit well with any refinement of the four basic categories. The chapter first discusses the properties of verbal gerunds, with particular attention paid to their status as mixed categories. Next, it reviews some of the previous proposals offered to account for verbal gerunds. Finally, the chapter presents an analysis of mixed categories as non-canonical combinations of properties from independent grammatical dimensions. The nominal nature of verbal gerunds is shown most clearly by the external distribution of verbal gerund phrases (VGerPs). Keywords: phrase structure grammar; verbal gerund phrases (VGerPs); verbal gerunds

Endocentric structuring of projection-free syntax

Abstract: 1. List of abbreviations, pix 2. Acknowledgments, pxi-xii 3. 1. Preface, p1-5 4. 2. Bare phrase structure and cyclic derivation by phase, in Light of Minimal Computation, p7-63 5. 3. Minimal head detection in projection-free syntax, p65-139 6. 4. Cyclic Spell-Out of projection-free syntax, p141-190 7. 5. Full Interpretation all the way through, p191-225 8. 6. Conclusion, p227-231 9. Appendix: List of propositions, p233-240 10. References, p241-258 11. Author index, p259-??? 12. Subject index, p???

Structural study of "a severed head

Abstract: The utilization of graph theory in the study of group structure has accelerated considerably in recent years. In the play, “A Severed Head,” this approach is useful for content analysis and also provides a practical example of a situation in which graphs can be used to represent the structure of interpersonal relationships, where the use of planar regions is not feasible.