ABSTRACT
The notion of ‘adjectival phrase/group’ is widely recognised in grammatical descriptions across constituency-and construction-based linguistic theories, whether formal, functional or cognitive (for example Biber et al. 1999: 101; Ouhalla 1994: 31), and generally refers to a phrase (AP/AdjP) whose head word is an adjective. The unit ‘group’, as recognised in systemic functional grammar (SFG), is discussed in detail by McDonald (this volume), with detailed discussions of two other classes of group, the ‘nominal group’ and the ‘verbal group’, discussed by Fontaine and Quiroz (both in this volume), respectively.
