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This schema licenses the following structures:<br> | This schema licenses the following structures:<br> | ||
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<li>NP -> D NP | <li><i style="color:#ffff00">NP -> D NP</i> | ||
<ul> | <ul> | ||
<li>[NP [SPR the][H student]]</li> | <li>[<i style="color:#ffff00">NP</i> [<i style="color:#ffff00">SPR</i> the][<i style="color:#ffff00">H</i> student]]</li> | ||
<li>[NP [SPR those][H apples]]</li> | <li>[<i style="color:#ffff00">NP</i> [<i style="color:#ffff00">SPR</i> those][<i style="color:#ffff00">H</i> apples]]</li> | ||
</ul> | </ul> | ||
</li> | </li> | ||
<li>S -> NP VP | <li><i style="color:#ffff00"><i style="color:#ffff00">S -> NP VP</i> | ||
<ul> | <ul> | ||
<li>[NP [SPR Lilly][H smokes]]</li> | <li>[<i style="color:#ffff00">NP</i> [<i style="color:#ffff00">SPR</i> Lilly][<i style="color:#ffff00">H</i> smokes]]</li> | ||
<li>[NP [SPR Lilly][H likes Fido]]</li> | <li>[<i style="color:#ffff00">NP</i> [<i style="color:#ffff00">SPR</i> Lilly][<i style="color:#ffff00">H</i> likes Fido]]</li> | ||
<li>[NP [SPR The student][H showed a cat to Fido]]</li> | <li>[<i style="color:#ffff00">NP</i> [<i style="color:#ffff00">SPR</i> The student][<i style="color:#ffff00">H</i> showed a cat to Fido]]</li> | ||
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</li> | </li> | ||
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Revision as of 22:43, 29 June 2019
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:
XP -> X + COMPS
Examples:
- [PP [H of][C Lilly]]
- [AP [H fond][C of Lilly]]
- [VP [H likes][C Fido]]
- [VP [H speaks][C to Fido]]
Schema 2: The head licenses two complements
This schema licenses the following structure:
XP -> X + COMPS
Examples:
- [VP [H show][C me][C Frankfurt]]
- [VP [H give][C the book][C to the student]]
- [VP [H put][C the book][C on the table]]
Head-Specifier Phrases
A head-specifier phrase can be formed by combining a sign [= the head daughter] with a second sign [= the non-head daughter] whose syntactic category can be unified with the syntactic category on the word’s spr list:
This schema licenses the following structures:
- NP -> D NP
- [NP [SPR the][H student]]
- [NP [SPR those][H apples]]
- S -> NP VP
- [NP [SPR Lilly][H smokes]]
- [NP [SPR Lilly][H likes Fido]]
- [NP [SPR The student][H showed a cat to Fido]]
Head-Modifier Phrases
Phrase Formation
Here is the file that we went through in class this week:
File:Phrase-Formation-Version3.pdf
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