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Much About Such
Author(s) -
Wood Johanna L.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
studia linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-9582
pISSN - 0039-3193
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9582.00088
Subject(s) - phrase , confusion , linguistics , determiner phrase , endocentric and exocentric , phrase structure rules , style (visual arts) , rule based machine translation , noun phrase , computer science , natural language processing , mathematics , psychology , philosophy , grammar , history , noun , archaeology , psychoanalysis
In traditional (e.g. Quirk style) grammars, there is confusion about the classification of the word such. This arises because there is often no clear differentiation between two such 's that differ semantically and syntactically: identifying such and intensifying such . I clarify the differences and suggest that the position of such indicates that a more articulated structure, with at least a determiner phrase and a number phrase is needed to account for ‘central determiners.” Using data from the BNC I analyze intensifying such in the framework of the split‐degree‐phrase hypothesis (Corver 1997). I also consider the structure of the DP containing such, discussing the layered DP (Zamparelli 1995) and predication within the NP (Abney 1987, Bennis et al. 1998).