Open AccessAdverb extraction and coordination: A reply to Levine
Author(s) -
Ivan A. Sag
Publication year - 2005
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.2005.18
Subject(s) - adverb , head driven phrase structure grammar , dependency (uml) , computer science , path (computing) , algorithm , linguistics , natural language processing , theoretical computer science , arithmetic , mathematics , artificial intelligence , programming language , noun , philosophy , generative grammar
HPSG accounts of filler-gap dependencies hold considerablepotential for explaining the cross-linguistic variation inunbounded dependency constructions (UDCs), specifically filler-gapdependencies. This potential comes from the SLASHspecifications that are posited in all nodes along the extractionpath (the path between filler and gap). However, as Hukari andLevine (1994, 1995, 1996) have observed, the HPSG analysispresented by Pollard and Sag (1994) fails to embody thegeneralizations required in order to explain key universalproperties of UDCs, in particular the ˋregistration' of suchdependencies in cases of subject- and adverb-extraction. Thisdemonstration led Bouma et al. (2001) to propose a revised UDCanalysis that avoids these difficulties by ˋthreading' the SLASHspecfications through all heads within an extractiondomain. However, Levine (2002) points out that this analysisencounters a new difficulty concerning the interaction ofextraction and coordination. This paper revisits these issues,arguing that a small modification of the BMS analysis provides asolution to the important problem observed by Levine.