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Re: THEORY: Adpositional Heads

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 10, 2003, 17:54
Rob Haden wrote:
> > 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. -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42