of phrases—is that they are identified as adjective phrases by the label on the top node of each tree. Head-final adjective phrases The following trees illustrate head-final adjective phrases, i.e. adjective phrases that have their head adjective on the right side of the phrase: The labels on the nodes in the trees are acronyms: A = adjective, Adv = adverb, AP = adjective phrase, N = noun/pronoun, P = preposition, PP = prepositional phrase. The constituency trees identify these phrases as adjective phrases by labeling the top node with AP, and the dependency trees accomplish the same thing by positioning the A node at the top of the tree. Head-initial adjective phrases The following trees illustrate the structure of head-initial adjective phrases, i.e. adjective phrases that have their head on the left side of the phrase: Head-medial adjective phrases The following trees illustrate the structure of head-medial adjective phrases: See also Adjective Clause Dependency grammar Head (linguistics) Linking verb Phrase Phrase structure grammar Predicative expression Notes References Brinton, L. 2000. The structure of modern English: A linguistic introduction. Bolinger, D. 1967. Adjectives in English: Attribution and predication. Lingua18: 1–34. Carnie, A. 2013. Syntax: A generative introduction. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. Cinque, G. (2014). The semantic classification of adjectives. A view from syntax. Studies in Chinese Linguistics. 35. 1-30. Crystal, D. 1997. A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics, 4th edition. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers. Culicover, Peter and Ray Jackendoff. 2005. Simpler Syntax. Oxford University Press: Oxford. Eroms, H.-W. 2000. Syntax der deutschen Sprache. Berlin: de Gruyter. Greenbaum, S. 1996. The Oxford English grammar. New York: Oxford University Press. Haegeman, L. and J. Guéron 1999. English Grammar: A generative perspective. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers. Jurafsky, M. and J. Martin. 2000. Speech and language processing. Dorling Kindersley (India): Pearson Education, Inc. Kesner Bland, S. 1996. Intermediate grammar: From form to means and use. New York: Oxford University Press. Osborne, T. 2003. The left elbow constraint. Studia Linguistica 57, 3: 233–257. Ouhalla, J. 1994. Transformational grammar: From principles and parameters to minimalism. London: Arnold. Radford, A. 2004. English syntax: An introduction. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Sportiche, D., Koopman, H. J., & Stabler, E. P. (2014). An introduction to syntactic analysis and theory. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. Starosta, S. 1988. The case for lexicase. London: Pinter Publishers. Grammar Syntactic categories