The categories that label heads, those of the clausal spine and of the nominal and adpositional extended projections.
- V : Cat
The verb.
- N : Cat
The noun.
- A : Cat
The adjective.
- P : Cat
The adposition.
- D : Cat
The determiner.
- T : Cat
Tense.
- C : Cat
The complementizer.
- v : Cat
Little v, the verbal categorizer or the light verb above the root.
- n : Cat
Little n, the nominal categorizer (Marantz 2001), also the head that bears gender.
- a : Cat
Little a, the adjectival categorizer (Panagiotidis 2015).
- Place : Cat
The locational head of the adposition (den Dikken 2010).
- Path : Cat
The directional head of the adposition, above Place (den Dikken 2010, Svenonius 2010).
- Num : Cat
Number (Ritter 1991), Borer's counting head, above the dividing head
Q(Borer 2005). - Dem : Cat
The demonstrative, above number (Cinque 2005).
- Q : Cat
Borer's dividing head, the classifier position, below
Num(Borer 2005). - Voice : Cat
Voice, which introduces the external argument (Kratzer 1996, Schäfer 2008).
- Appl : Cat
The applicative head (Pylkkänen 2008, Cuervo 2003).
- Foc : Cat
Focus, in Rizzi's split complementizer system (Rizzi 1997).
- Top : Cat
Topic, in Rizzi's split complementizer system (Rizzi 1997).
- Fin : Cat
Finiteness, the lowest head of Rizzi's split complementizer system (Rizzi 1997).
- SA : Cat
The speech-act head, which hosts the speaker and the addressee (Speas & Tenny 2003).
- Say : Cat
The say/assertion layer (Major 2021, Krifka 2023, Moulton 2009), embedding the content of a verbal or representational sign. Unlike the root illocutionary layer
SA, it is clause-internal, in the embedded left periphery with Say > Foc > T, and requires no CP (É. Kiss 2023, Egressy 2026). - Force : Cat
Force, the clause-typing head at the top of Rizzi's split complementizer system (Rizzi 1997).
- Neg : Cat
Negation (Pollock 1989, Zanuttini 1997).
- Mod : Cat
Modality (Cinque 1999).
- Pol : Cat
Polarity, Laka's Σ, for affirmation and negation (Laka 1990).
- Asp : Cat
Outer aspect, inflectional and above Voice (Cinque 1999).
- InnerAsp : Cat
Inner aspect (Travis 2010): Aktionsart in the v shell, below Voice.
- Evid : Cat
Evidential mood, inflectional (Cinque 1999).
- Mood : Cat
Mood (Cinque 1999): the speech-act, evaluative and irrealis moods, inflectional.
- Nmlz : Cat
The nominalizer (Keine 2020): the Hindi nominalized clause, a clause type distinct from CP.
- K : Cat
The inherent-case shell (Newman 2024): KP wraps DP for oblique or inherent case.
Derives Repr, DecidableEq, Inhabited.
Instances Minimalist.Cat.instIsPreorderExtendsTo, Minimalist.ClauseSpine.instMembershipCat
Used by SelStack, CatFamily.lexical, Cat.family, Cat.features, Cat.features_eq_iff
Used in Syntax/Cartography, Syntax/Minimalist/Case/Assignment, Syntax/Minimalist/Clause/Size, Syntax/Minimalist/Clause/Spine, Syntax/Minimalist/Ellipsis and 39 more