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2. The phrase is defined as a sequence or potential sequence of two or more words which function as a unit. The term 'potential sequence' refers to group (i) phrases, which have as nucleus a minimum of one obligatory tagmeme, such as phrase head; the term 'sequence' to group (ii) phrases, which have as nucleus a minimum of two tagmemes, such as focus and orienter. Both of these groups have satellite optional tagmemes of two types: phrase margin 1, manifested by one or more (usually only one) postpositional modifier attributives; and phrase margin 2, manifested by one or more (frequently a sequence of two or three) modal particles. The phrase fills a slot at sentence level (most commonly), within another phrase structure, or within a word. Phrase types are grouped together into hyperclasses in the same way as words, according to external distribution and internal structuring. The primary division follows closely that of word hyperclasses: verb phrase, noun phrase, attributive phrase, locative phrase, and time phrase. There are also: possession phrase hyperclass, quantitative phrase, ideophone phrase, and vocative phrase. 2.1. The verb phrase hyperclass consists of ten classes of verb phrases, which parallel the ten classes of verbs. Each of these verb phrases manifests the predicate tagmeme in each of the first ten sentence types respectively; thus, the intransitive declarative verb phrase (Vx.l) manifests the tagmeme +Intr.Dec.Pr. in the intransitive declarative sentence. All verb phrases are group (i) types, having obligatory nucleus tagmeme,
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