Minimal c-structure: rethinking projection in phrase structure
This paper addresses the formal properties of constituent structure (cstructure). We demonstrate inadequacies in the formalization of traditional X 0 theory by Bresnan (2001) and Bresnan et al. (2016), and in the alternative proposal of Marcotte (2014). We propose “minimal c-structure” as a new appr...
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| description | This paper addresses the formal properties of constituent structure (cstructure). We demonstrate inadequacies in the formalization of traditional X 0 theory by Bresnan (2001) and Bresnan et al. (2016), and in the alternative proposal of Marcotte (2014). We propose “minimal c-structure” as a new approach to phrase structure within Lexical-Functional Grammar, which almost entirely eliminates non-branching nodes, and neatly captures the distinction between projecting and non-projecting words. Our proposal is fully formalized, and has been successfully tested by an XLE implementation |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:f85c908e-9fb1-4fe4-adf6-0fa6cc80f8562022-03-27T12:49:39ZMinimal c-structure: rethinking projection in phrase structureConference itemhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794uuid:f85c908e-9fb1-4fe4-adf6-0fa6cc80f856Symplectic Elements at OxfordCSLI Publications2018Lovestrand, JLowe, JJThis paper addresses the formal properties of constituent structure (cstructure). We demonstrate inadequacies in the formalization of traditional X 0 theory by Bresnan (2001) and Bresnan et al. (2016), and in the alternative proposal of Marcotte (2014). We propose “minimal c-structure” as a new approach to phrase structure within Lexical-Functional Grammar, which almost entirely eliminates non-branching nodes, and neatly captures the distinction between projecting and non-projecting words. Our proposal is fully formalized, and has been successfully tested by an XLE implementation |
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