Precede-and-command revisited

B Bruening - Language, 2014 - JSTOR
The relation of c-command (Reinhart 1976, 1983) is widely believed to be THE fundamental
relation in syntax, underlying such diverse phenomena as coreference (the BINDING …

Category mismatches in coordination revisited

B Bruening, E Al Khalaf - Linguistic Inquiry, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We reexamine cases of coordinated elements that do not match in syntactic category. We
show that these fall into two types. The first type includes predicates, modifiers in the clausal …

Against ellipsis: Arguments for the direct licensing of 'noncanonical'coordinations

Y Kubota, R Levine - Linguistics and Philosophy, 2015 - Springer
Categorial grammar is well-known for its elegant analysis of coordination enabled by the
flexible notion of constituency it entertains. However, to date, no systematic study exists that …

[PDF][PDF] On the non-existence of non-constituent coordination and non-constituent ellipsis

C Sailor, G Thoms - Proceedings of WCCFL, 2014 - Citeseer
The second conjunct comprises Mary, the complement of a P selected by the verb,
alongside on Friday, a PP-adjunct adjoined to VP, but these do not form a constituent in the …

[PDF][PDF] Disjunctive questions: Prosody, syntax, and semantics

K Pruitt, F Roelofsen - a seminar at the Georg August Universität …, 2011 - projects.illc.uva.nl
Disjuntive questions —prosody, syntax, and semantics— Page 1 Disjuntive questions ∗ —prosody,
syntax, and semantics— Kathryn Pruitt† Floris Roelofsen‡ San Diego, March 3, 2011 1 …

[PDF][PDF] Non-constituent coordination: Prosody, not movement

B Bruening - U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, 2015 - core.ac.uk
Non-constituent coordination has been a topic of interest from the earliest days of generative
grammar, when it was just a sub-type of a general rule of Conjunction Reduction (eg Ross …

Syntax of either in eitheror… sentences

D Wu - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2022 - Springer
I propose an analysis of either in either… or… sentences that relates to a broader
generalization about the syntax of all focus-sensitive operators. I argue that either originates …

The syntax of non-canonical coordination in Jordanian Arabic: An experimental investigation

E Al Khalaf, B Mashaqba, R Aldiqs - Open Linguistics, 2024 - degruyter.com
Non-canonical coordination occurs when non-constituents are conjoined. Two major types
of non-canonical coordination are gapping and non-constituent coordination (NCC). Non …

The syntax-semantics interface of 'respective'predication: A unified analysis in Hybrid Type-Logical Categorial Grammar

Y Kubota, R Levine - Natural language & linguistic theory, 2016 - Springer
This paper proposes a unified analysis of the 'respective'readings of plural and conjoined
expressions, the internal readings of symmetrical predicates such as same and different …

[PDF][PDF] The semantics of declarative and interrogative lists

F Roelofsen - Manuscript, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, 2015 - semanticsarchive.net
This paper is concerned with sentences that consist of one or more declarative or
interrogative clauses separated by disjunction, with different intonation patterns. Some …