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Download full textHarlow, Steve – 1986
Since its inception, proponents of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG) have claimed the superiority of the analyses that the theory makes available for certain problematic constructions in English. Two examples of such constructions are (1) rightward unbounded dependencies (including right node raising) and (2) parasitic gaps. However, as…
Descriptors: English, Foreign Countries, Grammatical Acceptability, Linguistic Theory
Warner, Anthony R. – 1986
A discussion of constraints on ellipsis after auxiliaries in English focuses on a particular analytic problem concerning nonfinite verb phrases using "be", which has a historical dimension. A solution involving the morphological claim about the copula and its incorporation of tense-distinctions is proposed and discussed in the context of…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, English, Foreign Countries
Borsley, Robert D. – 1986
A discussion of passives in the context of generalized phrase structure grammar (GPSG) looks at two problems associated with a lexical rule that derives passive participles from active verbs. The first occurs with sentences whose main verb takes an NP and does not have a passive counterpart. This situation requires a more restrictive metarule, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English, Foreign Countries, Grammatical Acceptability
Calder, Jonathan – 1986
A study of problems posed by Mandarin Chinese data for modern linguistic theory focuses on the reduplication involved in the "A-not-A" construction. The Mandarin data and its possible descriptions are used to investigate the question of whether context-free languages are adequate to describe certain linguistic data. These data constitute a case…
Descriptors: Context Free Grammar, English, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Theory
Harlow, S. J., Ed.; Warner, A. R., Ed. – 1986
A collection of papers on linguistics includes: "Italian Comparatives of Inequality with 'Che' and 'Di'" (Adrian C. Battye); "A Note on Passives in GPSG [Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar]" (Robert D. Borsley); "Reduplicated Constructions in Chinese and Questions of Generative Power" (Jonathan Calder); "A Note on Subcategorization, Constituent…
Descriptors: Chinese, Communication Skills, Dialects, English
