X-bar theory
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in generative grammar, the theory of syntactic category formation that ① phrases may contain intermediate constituents projected from a head X; and that ② this system of projected constituency may be common to more than one category (e.g. N, V, A, P)
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- scientific model
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- discoverer or inventor
- Noam Chomsky
- inception
- 1970-00-00
- Stack Exchange tag
- linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/x-bar-theory
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