Re: THEORY: Adpositional Heads
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 10, 2003, 17:54 |
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Rob Haden wrote:
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> In the grammars of most languages, when discussiong adpositional (post-
> /prepositional) phrases, the adpositions are treated as the heads. What's
> the reasoning for this? It seems counter-intuitive to me. My opinion is
> that, at least in many languages (like English), the "objects" of the
> adpositional phrases are the heads, and the adpositions themselves are
> modifiers. What do y'all think?
Well, as I recall, the head is defined as the word that defines what the
phrase is. I.e., a verb defines a verb phrase, a noun defines a noun
phrase, hence, an adposition defines an adpositional phrase.
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