Specifiers as Secondary Heads
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One of the important tasks of a syntactic theory is to provide an account of the different dependency relations that hold between elements in a phrase.1 In Dependency Grammar (following various traditional grammatical traditions (cf. Lyons 1968), there are two basic types: complement and adjunct (or modifier). The first defines an obligatory relation between a functor (or head) and its argument and the second an optional modification of a category (or head). In Categorial Grammar, these two are the only types of relation allowed by the basic theory2, as shown in (1) where X and Y are any category labels. 1 Categorial Grammar:3 i X/Y + Y ⇒ X Complement ii X/X + X ⇒ X Adjunct
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