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In modern grammatical thinking, a clause has a "Functional Structure" (F-structure), a spine consisting of some number of non-lexical heads, perhaps as many as 150, with the lexical verb at the bottom. If we number these heads 0,...n and reserve 0 for the lexical head, then a clause is a s...

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Published inRegimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology pp. 132 - 143
Main Author Williams, Edwin
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United Kingdom Routledge 2011
Taylor & Francis Group
Edition1
Subjects
Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure
LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Recursive Part
Non-commuting Cases
Np Movement
Remnant Movement
Vice Versa
Eligible Target
Embedded Clause
Functional Junctures
LRT
Single Complement
vP
Single Clause
Improper Movement
Affix Hopping
Lexical Verb
Clause Boundary
Cross Clause Boundaries
LEC
Lexical Head
Head Movement
Phase Impenetrability Condition
General Locality Condition
Rt Model
Lexical Derivation
Bare Plural
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ISBN0415754399
9780415754392
9780415887236
0415887232
DOI10.4324/9780203830796-8

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Summary:In modern grammatical thinking, a clause has a "Functional Structure" (F-structure), a spine consisting of some number of non-lexical heads, perhaps as many as 150, with the lexical verb at the bottom. If we number these heads 0,...n and reserve 0 for the lexical head, then a clause is a sequence Fn...F0. If we embed a clause beneath a lexical verb, as in (1), we have two F-structures, and we have a boundary between them, the "Fn/F0 boundary," circled here: (1
ISBN:0415754399
9780415754392
9780415887236
0415887232
DOI:10.4324/9780203830796-8