Evidence from the Structure of Noun Phrases
Chapter Five presents the final stage of the syntactic analysis, arguing that phrase-level categories, like word-level categories, are unable to account for some syntactic phenomena. I propose an intermediate level between the word and the full phrase as an essential element to account for these phenomena, including the relationship of demonstratives such as OUTOS and EKEINOS to their head noun in what have traditionally been called uses of the demonstrative adjective. I argue that these demonstratives appear only superficially to function as adjectives, but upon closer examination must be treated as a separate category, quite unrelated to adjectives. The relationship of complements and adjuncts to their head nouns is also examined briefly in light of the three tier constituent structure proposal.