Open AccessTowards a unified account of adjuncts
Author(s) -
Y. Sato,
Wai Lok Tam
Publication year - 2008
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.2008.10
Subject(s) - adjunct , complement (music) , computer science , schema (genetic algorithms) , adjunction , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , linguistics , mathematics , information retrieval , philosophy , chemistry , biochemistry , complementation , pure mathematics , gene , phenotype
We present an analysis of adjuncts which, while based on thetraditional binary adjunction schema, accommodates the phenomena thatmotivate the alternative Adjunct-as-Complement approach, such asadjunct extraction and case marking. The key idea is to enable thesyntactic head (modifiee) to select for its modifier (adjunct) via thenew valence feature dedicated for adjuncts, while leaving its valuesunderspecified. Thus the selectional property of the modifieepercolates as well as that of the modifier, dispensing with the needto endow adjuncts a complement-like status.