Beyond the Constituent - A Dependency Grammar Analysis of Chains
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Timothy Osborne
Abstract
The paper introduces a unit of syntax beyond the constituent called the chain . A number of mechanisms are shown to be sensitive to chains, e.g. the formation of predicates and idioms, the ellipses of gapping, pseudogapping and VP-ellipsis, and the elided material of stripping and answer fragments. The presentation is couched in a surface syntax, dependency-based framework, as opposed to a constituency-based one. While the chain can be defined in a manner consistent with constituency, doing so requires that one adopt some controversial assumptions about the nature of constituency structure. The potential of the chain concept is great; it is the tool necessary to address the manner in which semantic compositionality occurs in the syntax.
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Articles in the same Issue
- The Non-autonomy of Syntax
- Beyond the Constituent - A Dependency Grammar Analysis of Chains
- A Parallel Movement Solution to Puzzles of Discontinuous Ellipses
- Präpositionen und Komplementierer in Chemini Berber (Taqbaylit)
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- A Paradigmatic View of Spanish amenazar ‘to threaten’ and prometer ‘to promise’
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