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2. Define the specifier feature - head feature - complementizer feature in the following phases.

For example:

Stock- head feature,

Exchange- complementizer feature,

stock exchange = stock – head feature, exchange – complementizer feature.

current marketing techniques =

ground rules =

priceless tool =

in conflicts =

modern business =

in war =

the numerous and the few =

great strength =

sharp sight =

hear a thunderdap =

see the sun and the moon =

Please help me!

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

Can you define your terms? Specifier feature? Head feature? Complementizer feature?

The only thing I could find (see link below) made no sense to me, but maybe it will to you.

C-selection as feature-checking
Subcategorization (Chomsky 1965), or e-selection (Pesetsky's 1982 term), is a relation which allows a head to specify certain feature values on its complement. However, the limitations of subcategorization are identical to the limitations of head-movement; the relation is strictly between a head and the head(s) that it properly governs, and never between a head and a specifier or adjunct. The grammar can therefore be simplified by collapsing the two head-head relations, either by treating cases of abstract head movement (and concomitant feature-checking) as subcategorization or by treating cases of subcategorization as head movement. In this paper I outline a proposal of the latter sort.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/C-selection-as-feature-checking-Svenonius/57cf7fe58c5f026738b794549f94919fc7dbc765

Good luck.

CJ

Anonymous · Answer

anonymousStock- head feature, Exchange- complementizer feature,stock exchange = stock – head feature, exchange – complementizer feature.

I'm completely lost here. There are two nouns in the NP "Stock Exchange" and I see "Stock" as a modifier in the NP (a noun in the attributive position) and "Exchange" as the head of the NP. Why would one need to complicate the syntax of that NP?

Anonymous · Answer

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anonymous
2. Define the specifier feature - head feature - complementizer feature in the following phases.
For example:
Stock- head feature,
Exchange- complementizer feature,
stock exchange = stock – head feature, exchange – complementizer feature.

current marketing techniques =
ground rules =
priceless tool =
in conflicts =
modern business =
in war =
the numerous and the few =
great strength =
sharp sight =
hear a thunderdap =
see the sun and the moon =
Please help me!

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