Open AccessThe syntax of distance distributivity in Polish: Preserving generalisations with weak heads
Author(s) -
Adam Przepiórkowski
Publication year - 2013
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.2013.9
Subject(s) - distributivity , head driven phrase structure grammar , syntax , linguistics , head (geology) , computer science , mathematics , natural language processing , function (biology) , artificial intelligence , grammar , pure mathematics , distributive property , philosophy , geomorphology , evolutionary biology , biology , geology
This paper presents a syntactic HPSG analysis of distance distributivity in Polish, where the challenge is to uniformly analyse a number of function lexemes PO 'each' which share their form and semantic contribution, but differ in their syntactic behaviour. To this end, the HPSG notion of weak head is employed in a novel way.