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The NP-S analysis of relative clauses and compositional semantics
We have sketched how it is possible to give an analysis for adjoined relative clauses which is consistent with the compositionality principle and have shown that the technique which seems necessary for this an...
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Variable Binding and Relative Clauses
Rodman (1976) makes the extremely interesting and attractive proposal that quantifier scope relationships are governed by the constraints that Ross (1967) proposed for certain movement and other syntactic tran...
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Generalized quantifiers and natural language
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Binding in Wholewheat Syntax
In this paper I shall explore one way of stating constraints on movement as constraints on binding without enriching the syntax with representations of unpronounced bound variables (as, for example, has been p...
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The syntax and semantics of when-questions
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Syntax and Model-Theoretic Semantics
This chapter is meant as an introduction to some of the basic notions of the kind of syntax and semantics that we will be develo** in the book. We attempt to point out how some of the linguistic concerns ari...
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Gender Agreement
In this chapter we adapt the treatment of presupposition proposed in the previous chapter to give an account of gender in English. In section 1 we give some general observations concerning gender in natural la...
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A Fragment of English
The aim of this chapter is to provide a complete, if sparsely worded, introduction to the basic notions of syntax and quantification that we shall need for the developments to be undertaken in the subsequent c...
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Storage and Wh-Phenomena
In this chapter we shall discuss four kinds of wh-constructions in English: restrictive and non-restrictive relatives, headless relatives and wh-questions. These constructions are described in section 1.1. We wil...
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Presupposition and Quantification
Up until now we have been ignoring the fact that pronouns in natural languages come in different genders, such as the English pronouns he, she and it. In the case of a bound pronoun the choice of gender depends o...
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Quantifier Storage
The first part of this chapter points out some undesirable aspects of the treatment of wide-scope quantification in the definition of Fragment 1. The NP-lowering rule creates unnecessary syntactic ambiguity an...
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Wh-Phenomena and the Theory of Grammar
In this chapter we discuss some of the implications of the analyses of wh-phenomena presented in Chapter IV for a theory of grammar. In section 1 we discuss some examples which might appear at first to favour the...
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Introduction
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Swedish and the Head-Feature Convention
The HEAD-FEATURE CONVENTION (HFC) has been proposed in the literature on Generalized Phrase-structure Grammar (GPSG) as a mechanism whereby the features on a node are essentially the same as the features on its h...
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Tense and discourse location in situation semantics
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