The Coordination of Unlike Categories

Bayer, Samuel

doi:10.2307/416279

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“…Within Principles and Parameters theory (P&P), it seems to be almost universally assumed that coordinate structures are Conjunction Phrases as in (1): 1 Thus, anyone who ignores other frameworks might think that the analysis is generally accepted. However, this analysis has not been assumed in other frameworks such as Headdriven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) (Pollard and Sag, 1994), Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) (Dalrymple and Kaplan, 2000;Bresnan, 2000) and Categorial Grammar (Bayer, 1996;Steedman, 2000). Within these frameworks, it is generally assumed that conjunctions are not heads and that coordinate structures are exocentric.…”

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confidence: 96%

Against ConjP

Borsley

2005

Lingua

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It has been widely assumed within Principles and Parameters theory that coordinate structures are Conjunction Phrases, with the first conjunct the specifier, the conjunction the head, and the second conjunct the complement. However, this analysis has not been assumed in other frameworks such as Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar and Categorial Grammar. There is considerable evidence that proponents of other frameworks have been right to be sceptical. Among other things, the distribution of coordinate structures, coordinate structures containing more than two conjuncts, and coordinate structures in which the conjuncts are words pose serious problems for the analysis. It has sometimes been suggested that the analysis receives some support from cases of unbalanced coordination where just one conjunct triggers agreement on some external head or bears the case assigned by an external head. However, a close look suggests that there is no support here for the analysis. #

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Against ConjP

Borsley

2005

Lingua

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“…Bayer (1996) proposes a semantic alternative to Bowers's (1993) Starke's (1995) structure in (19) provides the only small clause analysis that can deal with both sets of coordination facts on Bowers's (1993) assumptions, since it assumes that all small clauses are CPs. In this case, the coordination of unlike categories is not at issue because the impossibility of coordinating regular small clauses and NP 1 -'for'-NP 2 sequences can be derived by assuming that the complementizers in question do not have the same featural specifications.…”

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“…Hence, the predication is not direct (as under Stowell's approach), but mediated by a functional head Pred 0 . It is the presence of a PredP that makes possible what would seem to be an instance of prohibited coordination of unlike categories (see also Sag et al 1985, Bayer 1996.…”

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confidence: 99%

Mistaking For: Testing the Theory of Mediated Predication

Marelj

Matushansky

2015

Linguistic Inquiry

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This article investigates the validity of the theory of mediated predication by examining one of the proposed overt realizations of Pred 0 . Taking the law of parsimony as our starting position and using evidence from English, Russian, and Serbo-Croatian, we argue that the element that looks like the preposition 'for' is, in fact, a preposition (not Pred 0 ), and we show how it explains the syntax and the semantics of the relevant 'for' sequences. Cases of apparently predicative interpretation of 'for'-PP result from the interplay between the meaning of the preposition 'for' and the metaphorical reinterpretation of motion and locative verbs that 'for'-PPs combine with.

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“…To me it was quite surprising to find Geoffrey Huck and Younghee Na (1990) claiming without evidence that To whom did Mary give a pie during yesterday's recess of BILLY'S is good English but that What did Tom speak to Ann yesterday about? is bad English, or to encounter unsupported claims by Samuel Bayer (1996) that one cannot say I made John above suspicion but it is all right to say That Himmler appointed Heydrich and the implications thereof frightened many observers. However, querying other linguists' intuitions is easy sport, and I shall not indulge it further.…”

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Quantifying the shift towards empirical methods

Sampson

2005

IJCL

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In recent decades there has been a trend towards greater use of empirical data, for instance corpus data, within linguistics. I analyse a sample of linguistics articles from the past half-century in order to establish a detailed profile for this trend. Based on consistent criteria for classifying papers as evidence-based, intuition-based, or neutral, the resulting profile shows that the trend (i) is real, but (ii) is strikingly weaker in general linguistics than in the special subfield of computational linguistics, and (iii) appears to have begun to go into reverse.

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The Coordination of Unlike Categories

Cited by 56 publications

References 33 publications

Against ConjP

Against ConjP

Mistaking For: Testing the Theory of Mediated Predication

Quantifying the shift towards empirical methods

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