Non-local Right Node Raising: an Analysis using Delayed Tree-Local MC-TAG
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In this paper, we show that the analysis of right-node-raising (RNR) in coordinate structures proposed in Sarkar and Joshi (1996) can be extended to non-local RNR if it is augmented with delayed tree locality (Chiang and Scheffler, 2008), but not with flexible composition (Joshi et al., 2003). In the proposed delayed tree-local analysis, we define multicomponent (MC) elementary tree sets with contraction set specification. We propose that a member of each of the MC sets participates in forming a derivational unit called contraction path in the derivation structure, and that contraction paths must be derivationally local to each other for the relevant contraction to be licensed.
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تاریخ انتشار 2010