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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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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: Very often, the data the authors study as linguists are discrete in nature and the linguistic elements they study come in different categories and, trivially, if two elements are labeled the same, they belong to the same category, and if they are labeled differently, they belongs to different categories.
Abstract: Very often, the data we study as linguists are discrete in nature. That is, the linguistic elements we study come in different categories and, trivially, if two elements are labeled the same, they belong to the same category, and if they are labeled differently, they belong to different categories. In statistical approaches, this kind of scenario is usually described with the terminology of variables (or factors) and their levels. For example, when direct objects are studied, it may be interesting to describe them in terms of which part of speech the direct object's head is. In other terminology, each direct object studied is then described with regard to the variable PART OF SPEECH by assigning a particular variable level to it; depending on what the direct objects look like, the following levels are conceivable: PART OF SPEECH: LEXICAL NOUN, PART OF SPEECH: PRONOUN, PART OF SPEECH: SEMIPRONOUN, (such as matters or things), etc. Trivially, if direct objects are categorized this way, then a direct object whose head is categorized as PART OF SPEECH: PRONOUN is, for the purposes of this analysis, identical to another one whose head is categorized as PART OF SPEECH: PRONOUN and different from one whose head is categorized as PART OF SPEECH: LEXICAL NOUN. On other occasions, the observed variables are actually not discrete, but continuous, but for the purposes of an analysis they may be grouped into two or more categories such as

12 citations

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TL;DR: The effects of syntactic and information structures on sentence processing load were investigated using two reading comprehension experiments in Japanese, a head-final SOV language, showing that interaction of these two factors is not restricted to head-initial languages.
Abstract: The effects of syntactic and information structures on sentence processing load were investigated using two reading comprehension experiments in Japanese, a head-final SOV language. In the first experiment, we discovered the main effects of syntactic and information structures, as well as their interaction, showing that interaction of these two factors is not restricted to head-initial languages. The second experiment revealed that the interaction between syntactic structure and information structure occurs at the second NP (O of SOV and S of OSV), which, crucially, is a pre-head position, suggesting the incremental nature of the processing of both syntactic structure and information structure in head-final languages.

12 citations

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01 Oct 2010-Lingua
TL;DR: This paper proposed a new type of exocentric word structure in Japanese which consists of two dependent (rather than head) elements and whose category is determined by the collaboration of the category features of the two dependents in conjunction with their internal semantic relationship.

12 citations

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01 Dec 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose the concept of comparative doubling, i.e. phrases that undergo displacement within the adjective phrase to a Spec-position of a functional head that encodes "comparison".
Abstract: In this paper, I (re)consider a number of facets of adjectival comparative (and related) constructions as discussed in Corver (1997a,b). Rather than taking comparative words like more and less to be functional heads that head some Degree Projection, I claim that they are phrases (i.e. XPs) that undergo displacement within the adjective phrase to a Spec-position of a functional head that encodes ‘comparison’. In the spirit of Rizzi (1991), this Spec position is characterized as a criterial position. The empirical basis for my proposal is the phenomenon of Comparative Doubling, i.e. the co-occurrence of the bound comparative morpheme (-er) and the comparative word more in expressions like more safer.

12 citations

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John Bowers1
01 May 2011-Lingua
TL;DR: The authors showed that if noun incorporation is syntactic, then productive compounds such as deer hunter, painting consignor, etc. can be derived syntactically as well and that the order of incorporated nouns in such structures mirrors precisely the order in which argument categories are merged.

12 citations


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