Timeline for The Taller Girls of the Two Girls [Ellipsis]
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| Aug 1, 2017 at 7:14 | comment | added | BillJ | Huddleston & Pullum's 'A Student's Introduction' is excellent. I can also particularly recommend the award-winning 'The Cambridge Grammar Of The English Language' (CGEL), by the same authors. There are a few references to it on the 'Net. Here's one: link In my opinion, the fused-head analysis is far better than anything X-Bar can come up with. | |
| Jul 30, 2017 at 18:29 | comment | added | BillJ | They do have heads, and it's nothing to do with ellipsis. In "The taller of the two girls", the adjective "taller" is a fused modifier-head. It serves as head and as modifier at the same time. We understand it to mean "taller girl". In "the taller of the two", "two" is a fused determiner-head. | |
| Jul 30, 2017 at 15:34 | answer | added | Patrick Keenan | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 30, 2017 at 15:19 | history | asked | Hồ Quang Trung | CC BY-SA 3.0 |