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SELECTION, ADJUNCTION, AND CONCORD IN THE DP
Author(s) -
Sveius Peter
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
studia linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-9582
pISSN - 0039-3193
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9582.1993.tb00846.x
Subject(s) - adjunction , noun phrase , computer science , dative case , simple (philosophy) , linguistics , feature (linguistics) , tree (set theory) , natural language processing , noun , artificial intelligence , mathematics , combinatorics , pure mathematics , philosophy , epistemology
. In this paper I provide an account of morphological concord within the noun phrase, based largely on data from the Scandinavian languages. I adopt several proposals from the HPSG framework of Pollard & Sag 1993 (henceforth P & S), mainly certain formal mechanisms for ensuring that two nodes in a tree share feature specifications. I integrate with those proposals the DP hypothesis (Hellan 1985, Abney 1987). The combination of the DP hypothesis with the HPSG concept of structure‐sharing yields a very simple and effective treatment for concord effects without recourse to abstract movement, ad‐hoc functional heads, or vaguely defined ‘agreement’ relations holding between arbitrarily determined structural positions.*