ON EXTRAPOSITION FROM NP CONSTRUCTIONS: A PHASE-BASED ACCOUNT

Towards an Account of Extraposition in HPSG

This paper investigates the syntax of extraposition in the HPSG framework. We present English and German data (partly taken from corpora), and provide an analysis using a nonlocal dependency and lexical rules. The condition for binding the dependency is formulated relative to the antecedent of the extraposed phrase, which entails that no fixed site for extraposition exists. Our account allows t...

A Unified Account of English Fronting Constructions

English Object Extraposition: A Constraint-Based Approach

According to the Projection Principle (Chomsky 1981), expletives have no semantic content and thus cannot occur in theta-marked positions. However, there are many examples where expletive it appears as a direct object, in violation of the Projection Principle. The various attempts that have been made to account for such cases (e.g. the case-based analysis of Authier (1991), the predication anal...

translation of collocations from english into persian, based on ghazalas theory

غزالا همایندها را به صورت ترکیبی از دو یا چند واژه که همواره در متون مختلف زبان ها همراه با هم می آیند تعریف می نماید. از دیدگاه او روند رو به رشد میل به ترجمه ی همایندها در مطالعات ترجمه، به دلیل اهمیت آنها در انسجام ساختار زبان است. این پایان نامه اساسا به ترجمه ی همایندها منحصر شده است. هدف آن بررسی کاربرد راهکارهای غزالا در مورد ترجمه ی همایندها از انگلیسی به فارسی است. هدف دیگر آن یافتن پر...

Extraposition as Parallel Construal ∗

Extraposition phenomena are traditionally accounted for by extraposition rules, possibly as instances of "move alpha". According to the more recent developments of generative grammar, such as Chomsky's minimalism (1995) and Kayne's antisymmetry theory (1994), extraposition rules are problematic and no longer permitted in any obvious sense. In this article, I will show that there are also numero...