Syntax 1 Wiki: Week 6

Types of Phrases

Head-Complement Phrases

A head-complement phrase can be formed by combining a word [= <style color="blue"> the head daughter</style>] 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:

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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