Open AccessPied piping is a local dependency
Author(s) -
Frank Van Eynde
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2004.18
Subject(s) - piping , functor , dependency (uml) , phrase , substructure , interrogative , computer science , head (geology) , feature (linguistics) , artificial intelligence , natural language processing , mathematics , structural engineering , linguistics , engineering , geology , pure mathematics , mechanical engineering , philosophy , geomorphology
To model the pied piping in interrogative and exclamative clauses Ginzburg & Sag (2000) proposes anonlocal head-driven treatment, thus emphasizing the resemblances with extraction. This treatmenthas a number of drawbacks: it relies on poorly motivated lexical rules and nonbranching phrasestructure rules, it makes false predictions about pied piping in PPs, and it presupposes animplausible structure for NPs with predeterminers. To solve these problems I propose an alternativein which pied piping is treated as a local functor-driven dependency. Technically, the WH featureis integrated in the CATEGORY objects, and the propagation of its values is modeled by constraintswhich are independently needed for the treatment of other phenomena.