Сlassification by H.Sweet, O.Jespersen, L.Bloomfield

A narrower definition: a phrase is a unity of 2 or more notional words. A wider definition: phrase - any syntactic group of words. Phrases may be built by:

- combining notional words ,

- notional and functional words,

- functional words .

Notional phrases are more independent structurally and semantically, other types function as part of notional phrases. A phrase is naming unit. A phrase may have a system of forms. Each component of a phrase may undergo grammatical changes without destroying the identity of the phrase. The naming function of the phrase distinguishes it from the sentence, whose main function is communicative. Therefore the structure N+V is traditionally excluded from phrases. A phrase is usually smaller than a sentence, but it may also function as a sentence (N+V), and it may be larger than a sentence, as the latter may consist of one word.

Phrases may be classified partly by their inner structure (syntactic relations between the components, morphological expression and position of components, or by order and arrangement) and partly by their external functioning (distribution, functions of the components).

The components of the phrase can be connected by different types of syntactic relations. H.Sweet: the most general type of relation is that of the modifier and modified (headword and adjunct), or the relation of subordination. He also distinguished the relation of coordination.

The syntactic theory of O.Jespersen can be applied to phrases and sentences. The theory of three ranks is based on the principle of determination. In the word-group a furiously³ barking² dog¹ 1 is independent and is called a primary, 2 modifies 1 and is called a secondary, 3 modifies 2 and is called a tertiary. A secondary may be joined to a primary in two ways: junction and nexus. These terms are used to differentiate between attributive and predicative relations (relations between the subject and the predicate), or the relations of subordination and interdependence.

The structural theory of word-groups (L.Bloomfield), divides word-groups into two main types: endocentric (headed) and exocentric (non-headed). The criteria for distinguishing between them are distribution and substitution. .An endocentric group has the same position as its headword: An old man came in. - A man came in.Endocentric structure: the headword can replace the whole structure and have the same syntactic function as the whole group.

EXOCENTRIC word groups consist of two elements neither of which is subordinate to the other:

• prepositional phrases:

round the corner, in the street

• predicative phrases – combinations of nouns with finite or non-finite verbs:

the boy runs, the boy to run, the boy running

The distribution of an exocentric group differs from the distribution of its components: A man came in.

Interdependence – bilateral mutual domination of elements within the predicative group:

the noun element (subject) dominates the verbal element (predicate) determining the person of the predication

The sun N

• the verbal element (predicate) dominates the nominal element (subject) by ascribing to it some predicative quality, state or action is rising. V

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The main types of phrases	\|	Semi-predicative / secondary predicative word groups

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