Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
A study of the idea of the 'head' or dominating element of a phrase.
Synopsis
This first book-length examination of the concept of the head of a phrase tackles the problems set by the assumptions of particular theories and offers insights which have relevance across theoretical boundaries.
Table of Contents
List of contributors; 1. Introduction Norman M. Fraser, Greville G. Corbett and Scott McGlashan; 2. The head of Russian numeral expressions Greville G. Corbett; 3. The phonology of heads in Haruai Bernard Comrie; 4. Patterns of headedness Ronnie Cann; 5. Head-hunting on the trail of the nominal Janus Andrew Radford; 6. The headedness of noun-phrases: slaying the nominal hydra John Payne; 7. Head- versus dependent-marking: the case of the clause Nigel Vincent; 8. Heads in discourse: structural versus functional centricity Johanna Nichols; 9. Heads in head-driven phrase structure grammar Robert D. Borsley; 10. Heads and lexical semantics Scott McGlashan; 11. Heads, parsing and word-order universals John A. Hawkins; 12. Do we have heads in our minds? Richard A. Hudson; 13. Heads, bases and functors Arnold M. Zwicky; References; Index.