... sentences. In another study, Whittemore, Ferrara, and Brunner (1989) quantify the occurrence of PPs in the 13 dialogues in terms of the syntactic types to which they attach and the overall syntactic ... b. the size of the hotel The algorithm for the other group is: Check to see if preceding lowest consti- tuent is a definite NP and part of a partitive expression, If it is, attach the ... together. The reason for this particular grouping was that there were a num- ber of functions evident in some PPs that occurred very infrequently and since one of the major foci of the study...