Primitive Asymmetric C-Command Derives X-Theory∗ Robert Frank and Fero Kuminiak
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Throughout the development of syntactic theory, it has been widely assumed that sentence structures are represented as a certain type of graph, called a tree. On the basis of a variety of diagnostics, the words in a sentence have been taken to clump together to form hierarchically organized subgroupings, called constituents. Thus, the sentence every child ate some cabbage is assumed to have the following tree structure representation.
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