Open AccessCoordination of unlikes without unlike categories
Author(s) -
Rui P. Chaves
Publication year - 2006
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.2006.6
Subject(s) - ellipsis (linguistics) , grammar , computer science , linguistics , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , philosophy
Several analysis of Coordination of Unlikes have been proposed within the HPSG framework.In some of these approaches the possible combinations of 'unlike categories' are encoded in the grammar, while other accounts resort to an independently motivated ellipsis analysis.In this paper we provide further arguments in favor of the latter. However, some problematic cases of Coordination of Unlikes in certain S-adjoining constructions are left unaccounted for. We propose a general analysis of these S-adjoining constructions, and in doing so, the problematic coordination cases are predicted without the need for further assumptions.