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Assign Generalized Grammatical Functions

Determine the grammatical functions for the labeled nodes in the trees below. Use the labels head, complement, modifier, specifier.

Example:

[1]: specifier [2]: complement [3]: modifier [4]: head

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Back to the overview page about grammatical functions.

Some of these sentences were also used to illustrate the grammatical functions in a clause. There is a corresponding exercise as well.