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Discontinuous Constituency

Syntax and Semantics

  • 1st Edition - January 1, 1987
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Geoffrey J. Huck, Almerindo E. Ojeda
  • Language: English

Syntax and Semantics: Discontinuous Constituency is a collection of papers that discusses the role of discontinuous constituency in grammar. One paper proposes a program which… Read more

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Syntax and Semantics: Discontinuous Constituency is a collection of papers that discusses the role of discontinuous constituency in grammar. One paper proposes a program which combines the key ideas of the categorial theory of grammatical relations with a phrase structure view of syntax. The program provides a direct account of English verb-participle constructions, of extraposed relatives, and of the peculiar distribution of particles in English. Another paper shows that, given certain plausible assumptions about the type of grammar which children are predisposed to acquire, exposure to free word order triggers the postulation of discontinuous constituents. The paper also cites evidence involving the interpretation of reflexive pronouns and quantifiers in Korean grammar that make use of such discontinuous constituents. One paper tackles some issues surrounding the treatment of discontinuity and multidominance in the Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG) framework. The task is accomplished through a "phrase marker," a discontinuity and multidominance as ingredients of linguistic description, and a GPSG framework extension. Another paper analyzes extraposition and variations in surface order among syntactic constituents in English. The collection can prove valuable for linguists, students, and academician involved with semantics, syntax, and the philosophy of language.

Table of contents


Preface

Introduction

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Summary of Contents

References

Degree Complements

Text

References

Phrase Structure, Grammatical Relations, and Discontinuous Constituents

1. Introduction

2. The Verb-Particle Construction

3. Wrap as a Context-Free Operation

4. Relative Clause Extraposition

5. Conclusion

References

Redoing Reduplication: A Preliminary Sketch

1. Introduction

2. Affixation Approach

3. Theoretical Investigation

4. Copying Approach

5. Empirical Investigation

6. Summary and Conclusion

References

Analyzing Extraposition in a Tree Adjoining Grammar

1. Introduction

2. An Introduction to Tree Adjoining Grammar

3. TAG as a Grammatical Formalism for English

4. The Basic Facts of Extraposition

5. A TAG Analysis of Extraposition

6. Conclusion

References

Some Extensions of the Autolexical Approach to Structural Mismatches

1. Line Crossing

2. Noun Incorporation vs. Latin -que

3. Intermediate Causatives

4. Summary and Further Extensions

References

Some Additional Evidence for Discontinuity

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References

Boolean Properties in the Analysis of Gapping

1. Gapped Sentences with Boolean Properties

2. An Informal Perspective on the Analysis

3. Framework

4. Basic Principles of Gapping

5. The Scope of Negation

6. Types

7. Prosody, Types, and Scope

8. The "Connective" Not

9. Generalization

10. Review

References

Discontinuous Constituents in a Free Word Order Language

1. Introduction

2. A Categorial Grammar for Korean

3. Evidence from Reflexive Pronouns

4. Evidence from Quantifier Interpretation

5. Conclusion

References

Discontinuity, Multidominance, and Unbounded Dependency in Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar: Some Preliminaries

1. Introduction

2. Discontinuity, Multidominance, and Unbounded Dependency

3. Toward Discontinuity and Multidominance

References

Discontinuity in Autolexical and Autosemantic Syntax

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Syntax-Semantics Mismatches

Conclusions

References

Grammatical Hierarchy and Linear Precedence

1. Background

2. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

3. A Theory of ID Rules

4. Linear Precedence Rules for English

5. Conclusion

References

Constituency and Luiseno Argument Structure

1. The Proposal

2. Simple Constituents in Luiseno

3. Argument Structure

4. The Subject

5. Embedding

6. Final Remarks

References

Configurational Variation in English: A Study of Extraposition and Related Matters

1. Introduction

2. The Linguistic Domain of English Extraposition and Related Matters

3. Conditions on Interpretability

4. Conclusion

References

Linear Precedence in Discontinuous Constituents: Complex Fronting in German

1. The Problem

2. A GPSG Analysis of German Word Order

3. An Alternative Approach

4. The Proposed Framework

5. Implications of the Proposal

References

Extraposition from NP as Anaphora

1. Syntactic Approaches to Extraposition

2. A Reduced Role for Syntactic Bracketing

3. A DRT Analysis

4. Extraposition and R-Pronouns

5. Extraposition and Semantic NP Types

6. Conclusion

References

Index

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  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 1, 1987
  • Language: English