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Revision as of 12:22, 10 February 2009
In syntax, the head of a phrase is the word that determines the major distributional properties of the phrase. The other elements of the phrase are commonly called dependents.
Examples
The head of a noun phrase is the noun (e.g. book in the thick new book lying on the table), the verb of the verb phrase (e.g. give in give me that pen), and so on.
Synonyms
See head vs. dependent.
Origin
The term head has been unchallenged in English at least since Bloomfield (1933:195). The German and French equivalents (Kopf, tête) have become current in the 1980s, especially in Generative syntax.
Reference
- Bloomfield, Leonard. 1933. Language. London: Allen & Unwin.
other languages
German Kopf
Danish kerne
