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- From: rwojcik@atc.boeing.com (Richard Wojcik,snake)
- Newsgroups: sci.lang
- Subject: Monostratal Theories and Tricky Subcategorization
- Message-ID: <87107@bcsaic.boeing.com>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 21:08:15 GMT
- Sender: nntp@bcsaic.boeing.com
- Reply-To: rwojcik@atc.boeing.com
- Organization: Research & Technology
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- I am interested in the nontransformational analysis of sentences such as the
- following. I have inserted "---" at the deletion site.
-
- How interested are you --- in solving the problem?
- How tired is he --- of this subject?
- How eager is John --- to visit his grandmother?
- I know how eager John is --- to visit his grandmother.
- What evidence do you have --- that Mary committed the crime?
-
- The common thread is that all these constructions have an adjective or noun which
- subcategorizes the final element and forms a discontinuous constituent with it.
- So those final PPs and VPs really occur inside APs from a syntactic point of
- view (except for the last sentence). How are such constituents generated? With
- AP gaps? And how does information about subcategorization get from the
- discontinuous adjective/noun to the gap element? Can anyone direct me to some
- literature on these types of constructions? (My motive for this query is that
- our GPSG-like system currently posits only NP gaps, and we are pondering the
- feasibility of introducing other types of gaps in the system.)
-
- -----
- Disclaimer: Opinions expressed above are not those of my employer.
-
- Rick Wojcik (rwojcik@boeing.com) Seattle, WA
-