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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: In this article, the authors present evidence from Kiswahili supporting a head-raising analysis recently proposed in Kayne (1994) and Bianchi (1999), in which the relative clause is generated as a complement of the determiner.
Abstract: The author presents evidence from Kiswahili supporting a head-raising analysis recently proposed in Kayne (1994) and Bianchi (1999), in which the relative clause is generated as a complement of the determiner. Three kinds of evidence are presented: (1) selectional relations between demonstratives and some relative clauses; (2) quantified noun phrase-pronoun binding, in which the bound pronoun appears inside the head of the relative clause while its binder is located in the relative clause; and (3) relativization of objects comprising part of idiomatic expressions. The evidence supports both the head-raising hypothesis and the determiner complementation hypothesis.
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27 Feb 2020TL;DR: Responses to the DP Hypothesis are addressed and it is shown that they are without force.
Abstract: The DP Hypothesis has recently come under intense criticism (Bruening 2009, Bruening et al. 2018). In the face of this criticism, several responses have been offered. This paper addresses three such responses and shows that they are without force. First, N-to-D movement is not necessary in Shona, as Carstens (2017) claims. Second, patterns of hybrid agreement in Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian do not require the DP Hypothesis, as Salzmann (2018) claims. Third, patterns of conventionalized expressions show that there is a close syntactic relation, possibly selection, between a selecting head and N, contra Salzmann (2018). The patterns of conventionalized expressions are incompatible with the DP Hypothesis and require that the head of the nominal is N, not any functional head. Functional heads inside nominals have to be dependents of the head N, not vice versa.
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TL;DR: This article argued that Boskovic's generalization concerning the island-voiding effect of incorporation can be captured naturally within minimalist bare phrase structure if head movement (a) is a syntactic operation and (b) leaves no trace/copy.
Abstract: I argue that Boskovic’s (2011c) generalization concerning the island-voiding effect of incorporation can be captured naturally within minimalist bare phrase structure if head movement (a) is a syntactic operation and (b) leaves no trace/copy. E. Kiss’s (2008) ‘‘domain-flattening’’ phenomena are also expected under the proposed account. Further empirical consequences are discussed.
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05 Jul 1991TL;DR: An image reading and recording apparatus includes a read/write head in which a reading head and a recording head are assembled into a unitary head body, and a sheet feeding mechanism for feeding a sheet in engagement with the head body at a predetermined engagement position as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: An image reading and recording apparatus includes a read/write head in which a reading head and a recording head are assembled into a unitary head body, a sheet feeding mechanism for feeding a sheet in engagement with the head body at a predetermined engagement position, wherein the reading head and the recording head are provided respectively on the head body such that a distance between the reading head and the engagement position is set larger than a distance between the recording head and the engagement position.
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