Exercise 19
(i) Find examples from languages other than English for reversed orders of head–complement, specifier–head, specifier–head–complement, head–adjunct, etc.
(ii) Work out possibilities for adjunction the adjunct rule allows. Which constituent can never occur as an adjunct? Why?
(iii) Attempt to think about constructions that may potentially go against the idea that all phrases are endocentric (either because they seem exocentric or because they seem to exhibit properties of more than one head).
(iv) Given the distribution of nominative and accusative forms in English, what problem is raised by the following examples?
| (1) | a | He being the owner, we were all given a free drink. |
| b | Who wants ice cream? Me. | |
| c | Her cheat on him? Never. |