Participles, gerunds and syntactic categories
The phenomenon of so-called ‘mixed’ categories, whereby a word heads a phrase which appears to display some features of one lexical category, and some features of another, raises questions regarding the criteria used for distinguishing syntactic categories. In this paper I critically assess some rec...
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| description | The phenomenon of so-called ‘mixed’ categories, whereby a word heads a phrase which appears to display some features of one lexical category, and some features of another, raises questions regarding the criteria used for distinguishing syntactic categories. In this paper I critically assess some recent work in LFG which provides ‘mixed category’ analyses. I show that three types of evidence are typically utilized in analyses of supposed mixed category phenomena, and I argue that two of these are not, in fact, crucial for determining category status. I show that two distinct phenomena have become conflated under the ‘mixed category’ heading, and argue that the term ‘mixed category’ should be reserved for only one of these. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:d261acbe-d467-4700-86df-a78eb658820a2022-03-27T08:03:32ZParticiples, gerunds and syntactic categoriesConference itemhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794uuid:d261acbe-d467-4700-86df-a78eb658820aSymplectic Elements at OxfordCSLI Publications2017Lowe, JJThe phenomenon of so-called ‘mixed’ categories, whereby a word heads a phrase which appears to display some features of one lexical category, and some features of another, raises questions regarding the criteria used for distinguishing syntactic categories. In this paper I critically assess some recent work in LFG which provides ‘mixed category’ analyses. I show that three types of evidence are typically utilized in analyses of supposed mixed category phenomena, and I argue that two of these are not, in fact, crucial for determining category status. I show that two distinct phenomena have become conflated under the ‘mixed category’ heading, and argue that the term ‘mixed category’ should be reserved for only one of these. |
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