Parentheticals and Discontinuous Constituent Structure

It is argued that transformational grammarians' preference for strings & labeled bracketings over trees was made at the expense of descriptive adequacy. Relation- & order-changing transformations are distinguished & the discontinuous surface structure caused by the latter is analyze...

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Published in:Linguistic inquiry 1982-01, Vol.13 (1), p.91-106
Main Author: McCawley, James D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Closets
Constituent relations
Grammatical clauses
Linguistics
Portraits
Relative clauses
Sentence structure
Syntax
Violins
Word order
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Summary:It is argued that transformational grammarians' preference for strings & labeled bracketings over trees was made at the expense of descriptive adequacy. Relation- & order-changing transformations are distinguished & the discontinuous surface structure caused by the latter is analyzed in terms of mapping tree classes. The notion of tree is defined & its axioms are outlined. It is argued that parenthetical placement & other order-changing transformations belong to the stylistic component of a grammar & are governed by a stylistic rule. Z. Dubiel
ISSN:0024-3892
1530-9150