On 5/16/06, And Rosta <and.rosta@gmail.com> wrote:
If you mean X-bar theory in its most generic sense (= headed phrases) then IMO the answer is: Basically yes, but iff elided terminators are syntactically present even though unpronounced. (The terminator would be head of the phrase it terminates.)
Is there any reason to prefer the terminator to the "initiator" of the phrase as head? mu'o mi'e xorxes