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Deep-structure appositive and complement NP's

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2026

David Halitsky
David Halitsky*
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New York University
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Abstract

Data are presented to show that a grammar of English should generate NP's with internal structures like [NP [Det the][N planets][NP Mars and Venus]], as well as NP's with structures like [NP [NP the two moons of Mars][NP Phobos and Deimos]]. The transformation required by the analysis works in conjunction with Chomsky's Subjacency Condition to account for the semantic and syntactic properties of surface-structure forms.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , September 1974 , pp. 446 - 454
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Copyright © 1974 by Linguistic Society of America

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