When Mary and Abraham Lincoln moved into the White House in 1861, Mary was 42 years old, a time when women her age dressed in somber grays, dull browns, and boring blues. But not Mary Todd Lincoln. For her, expensive clothes were a mark of importance, of breeding. She proceeded to dr...
In contrast, functional categories have abstract meanings and primarily serve grammatical roles, such as definiteness and number for nouns, tense for verbs, and degree for adjectives. Corver and van Riemsdijk (2001b, p. 1) describe functional categories as necessary in the surface structure to “...