Mar. 8th, 2006
Am a) over 3000 words, so while another thousand would be good and another two thousand would be even better, pretty much any time I feel like I need to stop now I can do so without having Not Really Done The Assignment, and b) possibly zeroing in on a viable analysis/conclusion. I mean: is there any reason I shouldn't say the major phrase categories may be ranked in a Keenan-Comrie-style hierarchy, NP > AP > VP > PP (> AdvP), so any coordinate structure containing an NP is labeled NP, and so on? (The idea is, if you have a sentence like She was a Republican and proud of it, what's the head of the __P complement of the verb?)
Any thoughts -- particularly on the order of "That's a terrible idea for the following reasons" or "Oh, yeah, someone suggested that in 1978" -- are welcome.
Any thoughts -- particularly on the order of "That's a terrible idea for the following reasons" or "Oh, yeah, someone suggested that in 1978" -- are welcome.