Syntax 1 Wiki: Week 6

Types of Phrases

Head-Complement Phrases

A head-complement phrase can be formed by combining a word [= the head daughter] with 1 or 2 signs [= the non-head daughter(s)] whose syntactic categories can be unified with the syntactic categories on the word’s comps list.

Schema 1: The head licenses a single complement

This schema licenses the following structure:
X -> X + COMPS
Examples:

• [PP[P of][N Lilly]]
• [AP[A fond][PP of Lilly]]
• [VP[V likes][N Fido]]
• [VP[V speaks][PP to Fido]]

Head-Specifier Phrases

Head-Modifier Phrases

Phrase Formation

Here is the file that we went through in class this week:

File:Phrase-Formation-Version3.pdf

Link to the Online Grammar

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