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30. Classification of Phrases

Phrase is a grammatical unit, intermediate btw a word & a clause, which may consist of just one word (its head) or its head & expressions (including other phrases) that modify or complement it. Each component can undergo grammatical changes without destroying the identity of the whole unit: to see a house – to see houses.

According to their distribution: paratactic (free relations btw elements: Yes, please) and hypotactic (interdependence): endocentric: subordinative (fresh milk) and coordinative (some pens and pencils); exocentric: predicative (for him to do) and prepositional (at sunrise).

According to the type of connection:

Subordinative – dependence btw elements. They’re binary structures. They can always be divided into 2 immediate constituents – head and modifier. Kinds: adverbial (to speak slowly), objective (to see a house), attributive (a beautiful flower). Forms: agreement (this books – these books), government (help us Peter’s book), adjoinment (reading fact, the use of the modifying participles Just, Only, Even), enclosure (the use of modal words and their equivalents Really, After, All).

Coordinative – consist of 2 or more syntactically equivalent units joined in a cluster which functions as a single unit. Kinds: symmetric (interchangeability of elements – pens & pencils), asymmetric (fixed elements – ladies & gentlemen). Acc to presence or absence of connectors – syndetic and asyndetic. Forms: copulative (you and me), disjunctive (you or me), adversative (strict but just), causative-consecutive (sentence and text level only).

Predicative (nexus) phrases are distinguished on the basis of secondary predication: the lesson is over.

A phrase is a grammatical unit containing of a head word and any complements or modifier. Central element – head. Phrases consist minimally of a HEAD: children. It has zero-article + Noun = phrase. A string of elements may appear before a Head – pre-head: the small children. A string of elements after the Head – post-head: the small children in class 5.

A modifier – word, phrase or clause that functions as an adj or adv to limit or qualify the meaning of the head, modifiers include adj, adv, demonstratives, possessive pronouns, prepositional phrase, degree modifiers.

A qualifier – words or phrases used to attribute a quality to another word, esp a noun or in systemic gr words, phrases or clauses added after a N to qualify its meaning.

Complements – phrasal elements that a head must combine with: direct or indirect object.

Adjuncts – words or group of words which indicate the circumstances of the action (prep phrase or adv group).

Acc to ways in which phrases are constituted: non-headed and headed.

Acc to structure: simple (all elements are obligatory), expanded (equal in rank), extended (dependent element becomes a head).

Acc to number of constituents: binary (cold weather) and multiple (a girl with blue eyes).

Acc to synt function of adjunct: attributive, adverbial, objectival.

Acc to position of adjunct: with prepositive adjunct (cold weather), postpositive (money to spend), mistpositive (did not know), frame structures (as good as).

Acc to morphological classification: substantival (mainly attributive adjuncts may be in preposition or postposition to the N head: cotton yarn, the people invited); verbal (with simple objective or adverbial complements: to like books; with extended or expanded complements: to like to play the piano; with simple or extended objective and adverbial complements: to like to read and translate a passage); adjectival (worth reading, good for you); pronominal (heads usu are indefinite, negative or demonstrative pronouns: he himself, something new); numerical (the first to come, two of such birds); adverbial (headed by adverbial phrases or adverbs: terribly well, earlier than I could see); statival (afraid to answer, soon asleep).

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