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Why treat 'verbal group', not 'verb phrase', as a constituent of a clause in Systemic Functi...

In this manner, the syntax of synthetic and analytic languages become more similar, the relevant units of meaning corresponding to constituents regardless of the language at hand. … The SFG analysis is not plausible in my view, mainly because there is little evidence suggesting that periphrastic verb combinations such as has been working in (1) should be construed as constituents. …
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A set of Constituency Tests

The article Tests for constituents: What they really reveal about the nature of syntactic structure provides a comprehensive discussion of tests for constituents. I am the author of this article. … The article scrutinizes 15 commonly employed tests for constituents that one finds in the syntax literature, documenting their use extensively. …
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Is there a paradigmatic formalism for dependency grammars?

The main difference in this regard is that dependency-based structures acknowledge many fewer constituents than phrase structure grammars. …
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What is the difference in a constituent and a phrase?

A phrase is a sub-type of constituent, which means every phrase is a constituent but many constituents are not phrases. … When one looks further, though, to which constituents should be construed as phrases, opinions vary, sometimes drastically so. …
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