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  • 7 - Hudson on Heads

  • Edited by Eva Duran Eppler, Roehampton University, London, Nikolas Gisborne, University of Edinburgh, Andrew Rosta, University of Central Lancashire, Preston
  • Book:
    Word Grammar, Cognition and Dependency
    Published online:
    19 December 2024
    Print publication:
    02 January 2025, pp 163-177

  • Summary

    In this paper dedicated to Hudson, we discuss the criteria used to define the dependency structure and to characterize the syntactic head of every syntactic unit. Hudson was the first one, in the 1980s, to really try to justify his choices of analysis in dependency syntax by using both distributional criteria with and without removal, but he never stated them in black and white. This paper is an attempt to propose distributional criteria for choosing a syntactic head and proving the head status of words that can generally not stand alone, such as determiners, prepositions, or auxiliaries. Three criteria are stated – a Positive and a Negative distributional criterion with removal and a Distributional criterion without removal – as well as a Distributional criterion for the head of a sentence. These criteria are compared to criteria used in Garde (), Hudson (, ), and Mel’čuk (), showing that Mel’čuk circumvented them in practice, while Hudson applied them quite systematically but never really stated them clearly.