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• Compound
  ...ough the most productive type, as far as English is concerned, is the Noun+Noun compound. Compounds, in English and some other languages, can be written as ...s on the first syllable, whereas in green 'house, an adjective modifying a noun, the stress falls on the second syllable.
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• Postpositional phrase
  A '''postpositional phrase''' is an [[adpositional phrase]] whose [[head]] is a [[postposition]]. ...wed by a postposition. The postposition is the head of the phrase, and the noun phrase is its '''complement'''."'' (Göksel & Kerslake 2005:241)
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• Phrase structure
  ...he whole sentence is construed as an [[IP|Inflectional Phrase]] or IP, the head of which is [[INFL]]ection), here filled with the [[auxiliary]] ''will''. I
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• Head
  In [[:category:syntax|syntax]], the '''head''' of a [[phrase]] is the [[word]] that determines the major distributional ...a word. This generalization lies at the heart of the so-called [[Righthand Head Rule]].
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• Apposition
  ...s itself a [[noun]] (or [[NP]]) and is [[coreferential]] with the [[head]] noun. ...er, the poet'', where a noun phrase ''the poet'' is apposed to a preceding noun phrase ''your brother'', which in turn is the object of ''met''. The relati
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• Inherent case
  ...with theta-marking. This implies that a noun cannot be the case-assigning head in an [[ECM]] construction, and no [[Raising to Subject]] in an NP is possi ...d inherent if its assignment is an idiosyncratic property of the assigning head. EXAMPLE: in German the verb ''helfen'' (to help) assigns Dative to its NP
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• Endocentric compound
  ...[[head]] and the other as its [[modifier]], attributing a property to the head. The relation between the members of an endocentric compound can be schemat ...''steamboat'' will be found in basically the same semantic contexts as the noun ''boat''. The compound also retains the primary syntactic features of ''boa
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• IS A Condition
  ...at. The Is A Condition is the predecessor of Williams' (1981a) [[Righthand Head Rule]]. * Williams, E. 1981a. ''On the notions 'Lexically Related' and 'Head of a Word','' Linguistic Inquiry 12, pp. 245-274
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• Functional projection
  ...or [[Det]] ([[DP]]). The underlying assumption is that, like the [[lexical head]]s N, A, V and P, functional heads have a syntactic projection as dictated * Abney, S. 1987. ''The English Noun Phrase in its Sentential Aspect,'' Unpublished Diss MIT.
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• Phrase structure in Skolt Saami
  ==Noun Phrases== ...b of degree (Quantifier), adjective and/or participle and finally the head noun.
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• Free relative
  Usually one assumes that free relatives are NPs with an empty head noun: [_NP 0 [_S ''who finishes first'']].
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• Nonrestrictive relative clause
  ...use]] that accompanies but does not [[restrict]] the meaning of the [[head noun]].
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• Restrictive relative clause
  ...]. It is used to restrict the class of entities that can be denoted by a [[noun phrase]]. ...ictive relative clauses add further qualifications to the reference of the noun phrase but do not narrow down (nor expand) its extension. Thus in ''this bo
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• Complex NP Constraint
  ::*''No element contained in an S dominated by an NP with a lexical head noun may be moved out of that NP by a transformation.'' (Ross 1967:70).
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• Contact relative clause
  ...ative clause''' is a [[relative clause]] that immediately follows its head noun, without any [[relative pronoun]] or other relative marker. The term is mos
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• Typological consistency
  ...he verb phrase (VP) and the ordering of head noun and the modifiers in the noun phrase (NP). Winfred P. Lehmann generalized over Greenberg’s data and ca ...ecede nouns." (Lehmann 1973:48). Apart from the tendency to conform to one head-type within different parts of syntax, Lehmann (1973) noted a tendency of O
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• Frozen Structure Constraint
  ...) which says that if a [[clause]] has been extraposed from a NP whose head noun is lexical, this NP may not be moved, nor may any element of the clause be
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• Agreement
  *Agreement of [[article]] and [[adjective]] with [[noun]] in [[number]] and [[gender (morphology)|gender]]: *Agreement of [[verb]] with [[subject]] noun phrase:
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• Adpositional phrase
  ...consisting of a [[head]] [[adposition]] and its complement (generally a [[noun phrase]]).
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• Co-analysis
  .... by adding a grammatical element both to a phrase as a whole and to the [[head]] of that phrase. ...se as a whole (cf. (i)), and in other cases it seems to be attached to a [[noun]] (cf. (ii)):
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