ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to give an overview of the skeleton and constituent structure in Government Phonology (GP), 1 along with licensing and governing relations, as provided for in the theory. It is intended as a critical overview (drawing heavily on work by other researchers in the field, as indicated by the references) which both extols the virtues of GP and points out possible shortcomings, in the hope that these will be addressed in future work.
