Michael,
In my grammar I take it as a non-restrictive adverbial (of place)
modification to Laodicea. Without ellipsis the noun phrase would read:
"Laodicea, (which is) about eleven miles (far) away (from it)." This makes
_from_ (relation) the head, with the adverb (direction) _away_ modifying it,
which in turn has the adverb (distance) _far_ modifying it, which in turn
has the adverbial noun (extent) _miles_ modifying it, and then the adverbial
noun (number) _eleven_ modifying _miles_ (many varieties of adverbs!).
However, the idiom _away from_ seems to be moving in the direction of a
prepositional phrase modifying _away_. If you can't live with ellipsis,
then perhaps you will have to have some of these basic syntactic functions
taken over by the parts that do appear. Maybe _miles_ would then take over
as the head with _away_ modifying it, or prossibly better vice versa. They
are both adverbial with very similar meaning, one being simply more specific
than the other.
I hope this helps.
Bruce
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Subject: what kind of phrase
> In the sentence:
>
> "Colosse has never been either rebuilt or excavated, unlike its neighbor
> Laodicea, about eleven miles away."
>
> What kind of phrase is "about eleven miles away"? I realize it is
> performing an adverbial function, but what is the head word of the phrase?
>
> Thanks in advance for your advice.
>
>
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