Open AccessComparison of the ellipsis-based theory of non-constituent coordination with its alternatives
Author(s) -
Shûichi Yatabe
Publication year - 2012
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.2012.26
Subject(s) - ellipsis (linguistics) , raising (metalworking) , computer science , context (archaeology) , node (physics) , linguistics , semantic theory of truth , grammar , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , mathematics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , paleontology , geometry , biology
In this paper, I compare the ellipsis-based theory of non-constituent coordination proposed inYatabe (2001) with three of its alternatives, namely the theory that has been widely accepted withinthe context of Categorial Grammar, Mouret's HPSG-based theory, and the theory proposed by Bachrachand Katzir in the framework of the Minimalist Program. It is found (i) that the CG-based theory ofnon-constituent coordination cannot deal with medial RNR, i.e. a subset of right-node raisingconstructions in which either all or a part of the right-node-raised material is realized at alocation other than the right edge of the final conjunct, (ii) that Mouret's theory encounterssimilar difficulties when applied to RNR, and (iii) that Bachrach and Katzir's theory cannot beapplied to left-node raising in English, has difficulty capturing the semantic inertness of medialRNR, and overgenerates in several ways. The ellipsis-based theory, on the other hand, appears to beconsistent with all the observations.