Elements of Structural Syntax

Tesnière, Lucien

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“…Such an analysis is similar to the original account of coordination proposed by /2015. It incurs the problem of misrepresenting the valence of the verb arrive.…”

Section: Theoretical Preliminariesmentioning

confidence: 74%

“…In employing the arrow in this manner, we are following others (e.g. /2015Engel 1994: 44;Jung 1995: 111-116;Eroms 2000: 85-86;Mel'ǔk 2003: 193), although the exact visual convention employed across these sources varies in important ways.…”

Section: Roots and Constituentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We would, however, like to point out that the DG tradition began exploring coordination early. Tesnière ( [2015) discussed cases of gapping, stripping, and RNR (but using a much different nomenclature) long before these phenomena were acknowledged by linguists in Anglo-American circles. structure constituents.…”

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Left node blocking

Osborne

Groß

2017

J. Ling.

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This article investigates a particular phenomenon of coordination that delivers important clues about the nature of syntactic structures. We call this phenomenon LEFT NODE BLOCKING -the designation is a play on the related concept of RIGHT NODE RAISING. Left node blocking provides insight into how syntactic structures are produced and processed. The dependency grammar analysis of the left node blocking phenomenon put forth here focuses on ROOTS in coordinated strings. By acknowledging roots, it is possible to discern what coordination is revealing about syntactic structures. In particular, coordination delivers evidence for relatively flat structures. THE COORDINATION DIAGNOSTICThe use of coordination as a diagnostic for constituents can be traced at least as far back as Chomsky (1957: 36), who wrote that 'the possibility of conjunction offers one of the best criteria for the initial determination of phrase structure'. Ever since then the willingness to employ coordination as a test for constituents has been unrivaled by the other diagnostics that are typically used (clefting, pseudoclefting, proform substitution, answer fragments, etc.). There is, however, a serious problem with coordination as a diagnostic for constituents: it is too liberal; it identifies too many strings as constituents, and many of these strings are not corroborated as constituents by other tests. While its liberal nature is widely acknowledged as a problem for accounts of constituent structure, the willingness to employ coordination as a diagnostic for constituents is unyielding. Most introductory textbooks on syntax and linguistics continue to use coordination as a means of demonstrating the presence of constituents in sentences. 2[1] The research presented in this article was funded by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Grant #15YJA74001. The content has benefitted greatly from feedback provided by three anonymous Journal of Linguistics referees. For ease of reference, the main abbreviated forms that appear time and again in this article are listed here together: DG = dependency grammar, LNB = left node blocking, NCC = nonconstituent coordination, PFC = Principle of Full Clusivity, RNR = right node raising.[2] The following syntax, linguistics, and grammar books all use coordination as a diagnostic for identifying constituents: Baker

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“…Such an analysis is similar to the original account of coordination proposed by /2015. It incurs the problem of misrepresenting the valence of the verb arrive.…”

Section: Theoretical Preliminariesmentioning

confidence: 74%

Section: Roots and Constituentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Left node blocking

Osborne

Groß

2017

J. Ling.

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“…As discussed in Vater (1978aVater ( , 1978b, a coherent view is already absent in Tesnière (1959Tesnière ( , 2015, the founding work on valency. Perhaps surprisingly, after 60 years of intensive research on this topic, we do not seem to be any closer to a clear understanding of this purported dichotomy.…”

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On the argument-adjunct distinction in the Polish “Semantic Syntax” tradition

Przepiórkowski

2017

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On the argument-adjunct distinction in the Polish Semantic Syntax traditionThe aim of this paper is to examine the understanding of the Argument-Adjunct Distinction within the Polish Semantic Syntax (SS) tradition, associated with the name of Stanisław Karolak and presented in the nominally syntactic volume of the Grammar of contemporary Polish (Pol. Gramatyka współczesnego języka polskiego; Topolińska, 1984), especially in Karolak (1984) and Grochowski (1984), as well as in later work. Section 1 reviews the three approaches to determining the number and kind of arguments of a given predicate, as discussed in Karolak (1984), concentrating on the one that is endorsed there. Then, Sections 2–3 show that the key notions used in this approach have not been – and probably cannot be – made operational. Moreover, Section 4 briefly reviews some more recent Semantic Syntax work and shows that this lack of operational AAD in Karolak (1984) extends to the SS programme at large. Finally, Section 5 concludes that this deficiency, while common in linguistic theories, is particularly troublesome in the case of SS, which is founded on the notion of predicate-argument structure. O rozróżnieniu argumentów od modyfikatorów w polskiej tradycji „składni semantycznej”Artykuł poświęcony jest kwestii fundamentalnej dla szkoły „składni semantycznej” (kojarzonej przede wszystkim z nazwiskiem Stanisława Karolaka), a mianowicie kwestii odróżniania argumentów od modyfikatorów. Celem artykułu jest wykazanie, że w tradycji „składni semantycznej” nie została zaproponowana operacyjna procedura odróżnienia argumentów od modyfikatorów, choć istnienie takiej procedury wydaje się warunkiem koniecznym dla wyodrębnienia struktury predykatowo-argumentowej, głównego celu wielu prac zakorzenionych w tej tradycji.

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“…Die Dependenzgrammatik wurde maßgeblich von Tesnière (1959Tesnière ( , 2015 weniger Knoten benötigen würden (Groß & Osborne 2009: 48 (Osborne & Kahane 2015: lix). Die Strukturen, die man dann für red cars that you saw yesterday bekommt, entsprechen genau den Strukturen, die man auch in der X-Analyse von NPs hat (Müller 2016: 379).…”

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Grammatiktheorie und Empirie in der germanistischen Linguistik

2018

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Dieses Werk ist lizenziert unter der Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Lizenz. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Bibliografische Information der Deutschen NationalbibliothekDie Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.dnb.de abrufbar. VorwortWo steht die germanistische Sprachwissenschaft aktuell? Der vorliegende Band mit dem Titel "Grammatiktheorie und Empirie in der germanistischen Linguistik" ist der erste Teil einer auf sechs Bände angelegten Reihe, die eine zwar nicht exhaustive, aber doch umfassende Bestandsaufnahme derjenigen Themenfelder innerhalb der germanistischen Linguistik bieten will, die im Kontext der Arbeiten des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache in den letzten Jahren für das Fach von Bedeutung waren und in den kommenden Jahren von Bedeutung sein werden (und von denen nicht wenige auch vom Institut für Deutsche Sprache bedient wurden und werden). Jeder einzelne Band behandelt ein abgeschlossenes Themengebiet und steht insofern für sich; in der Zusammenschau aller Bände ergibt sich ein Panorama der "Germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft um 2020".Anlass

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Elements of Structural Syntax

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On the argument-adjunct distinction in the Polish “Semantic Syntax” tradition

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