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What kind of phrase is "until recently"?
Your 'rules' mix traditional and contemporary grammars. It's true in both traditional and contemporary grammars that a preposition phrase [PP] consists of a preposition and an object; but in ...
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How to treat adverbial phrases in X-bar theory
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'[I]n the many places where I was guilty of the reprehensible and shockingly common confusion of the notions of "adverb" and "adverbial"; these defects, for which I ...
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Is the adverbial phrase and adverb phrase identical?
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An adverb phrase is best thought of as a phrase headed by an adverb, in the same way that a preposition phrase is a phrase headed by a preposition and so forth. An 'Adverbial' is a ...
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Is the adverbial phrase and adverb phrase identical?
I very much dislike the term "adverbial".
I think it is very unsatisfactory to have a function term that is morphologically derived from a category term. Adverb is a word category, and adverb phrase (...
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What part of speech is "as their native"?
The number of people who speak English as their native language will decline.
The string as their native comprises three separate items: the preposition "as", the genitive pronoun "their" and the ...
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What is the term for the formation of word groups with single meaning/function (e.g. "in relation to which") in lingustics
The term for such kind of phrase is multiword expression. I am not aware of a special term for the process that creates multiword expression. I am also not aware of some special treatment of them; in ...
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The function of prepositional phrases
You're asking about both constituency and dependency.
Constituency: Is "peek into" a phrasal verb or verb+preposition? So do we have [[peeking into][the alley]] or [peeking[into[the alley]]]? You ...
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"Have in view" - origin
Modern Greek has "have under view = to be aware of", έχω υπ' όψιν and "take under view = to consider", λαμβάνω υπ' όψιν; the morphology is Ancient. The phrase is classic Puristic, but it appears to be ...
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What part of speech is "as their native"?
As @user6726 already said, you can not assign the phrase a POS, because "part of speech" refers to single words which as their native language isn't.
If you are interested in the syntactic category, ...
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Does each word category have a corresponding phrase category?
Assuming that syntactic analysis is more interested in functional rather than lexical aspects, it would be not implausible that in general, certain POS categories can be subsumed under one syntactic ...
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The function of prepositional phrases
to peek - into the alley
to look - into the mirror
to go - into the house
to fall - into the pit
Such structures are verb + preposition group (a where-to indication).
If you analyze the structure ...
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Which word is the head of the phrase "somewhere there"?
Somewhere there is a crime happening.
In the sentence above from the Robocop films the word somewhere is functioning as a Locative Adjunct. Notice that it can appear either at the beginning or end of ...
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Infinitive clauses referring to an adjective before a noun
(the question should be on ELU or ELL)
In the first group (both sides), the infinitive action is done by the subject.
In the second group (right side), the infinitive action is done by the main ...
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How to extract meaning of colloquial phrases and expressions in English
This is very difficult. I'll recommend three things:
Use the U of I CogComp shallow parser to get phrases (not CoreNLP), see: http://nlp.cogcomp.org/ It's much better at picking up phrases, IMO.
If ...
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Why is P the head of PP?
Let me answer your question from the point of view of German grammar. German, like English, has so-called "prepositional objects", i.e. the verb selects a particular preposition, which has ...
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What are the structure and meaning of this sentence a lie is a lie is a lie is a lie?
While it is possible to force them into something parsable (especially the "lie" one, because it makes sense to describe the statement "a lie is a lie" as a lie), as they are ...
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Analysis of adverbial phrases composed of NOUN and NOUN
I'm going to answer your questions in reverse order.
Is it a completely idiomatic structure, or is there some way to connect it to more regular grammar?
While these individual examples are idioms, ...
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Detect egoistical emotion
I don't think there is such a thing as "egoistical emotion" that can be detected.
A huge part of the problem here is confusion between "egoistical" and "egotistical". All of your existing examples ...
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Is "bien décidés" an adjectival phrase?
The phrase "bien décidés" qualifies "quelques volontaires", which is a noun phrase, as its head is the noun "volontaires".
A phrase that qualifies a noun phrase would typically be an adjectival ...
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Is "bien décidés" an adjectival phrase?
They are separate words belonging to different syntactic classes. "bien" is an adverb here that determines the adjective "décidés". "bien" can be substituted for another adverb as "très".
"bien" can ...
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Metalanguage to describe expressing an idea in many different ways
They are different 'linguistic forms' pointing to the same referent, so the term 'periphrases' (generated through grammatical transformations) seems the correct one. Instead, Frege used the term '...
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Which word is the head of the phrase "somewhere there"?
Edit: As Araucaria pointed out, OP (and consequently I) misinterpreted the sentence for Somwhere there a crime is happening/Somehwere there, there is a crime happening, which, however, is not what the ...
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Does each word category have a corresponding phrase category?
I question whether the premise of your question is true about language structure, though it is surely true about the way some people talk about language. Why think there is any difference between ...
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What part of speech is "as their native"?
In the example "The number of people who speak English as their native language will decline", "as their native language" is a manner adverb, which makes it a V-bar modifier, following the analysis in ...
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Having trouble with assigning stress degrees to a long compound
At first sight, an analysis as a (binary composed) compound seems to be possible:
You could start arguing about the precise labels; for reason of simplicity I just assumed that the suffix "-ed" makes ...
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