ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on two issues: first, whether it is helpful to identify categories intermediate between the lexical and the phrasal categories; and second, whether one can usefully identify a more elaborated system of functional relationships. A phrasal structure (XP) is the maximal projection of its head, the corresponding lexical category. There may be any number of intermediate categories. XP may have as its daughter a specifier; the lexical head may have complements as its sisters. The chapter summarizes the constituency structure of each of the major categories of English. For each of the major lexical categories noun, verb, preposition and adjective, the maximal projection is the corresponding noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase, or adjective phrase. There are also intermediate levels of structure for the same. The chapter illustrates the specifiers, modifiers and complements of all the major lexical categories.
