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This paper elaborates on the idea that properties which are usually ascribed to heads have one of three sources: wide scope in semantic composition, information load (relevance), and origin from an appositive structure. Starting with constructions combining property words with words denoting objects, we proceed to possessive constructions, adpositional constructions and even clause-level phenomena, and argue that in all of them, the assignment of the relevant head properties to different elements may be motivated by the diversity of the sources. Given this picture, we tentatively conclude that in most cases we need not think of heads, but rather of head properties. |
