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A Dependency Grammar of English: An introduction and beyondTimothy Osborne
[Not in series 224] 2019
► pp. 105–134
Timothy Osborne
[Not in series 224] 2019
► pp. 105–134
Chapter 4Units of structure
Article outline
- 4.1Overview
- 4.2Generic units
- Strings
- Catenae
- Components
- Constituents and phrases
- 4.3Relational units
- Parents and children
- Roots vs. heads
- Parents vs. heads
- Children vs. dependents
- Pre- and post-dependents/children
- 4.4Catenae and ratios
- 4.5Phrase structure constituents
- 4.6Catenae in phrase structure grammar
- 4.7Subject plus finite verb
- 4.8Government
- 4.9Auxiliary verb plus content verb
- Position and uniqueness of finite verb
- Diagnostics for constituents
- 4.10NP vs. DP
- Determiner-less nouns
- Possessive pronouns
- Idiom catenae
- Parallelism across clause and NP
- 4.11Governors vs. selectors
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