Reflexives and TAG Semantics
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Nesson and Shieber (2006) argue that the synchronous TAG (STAG) formalism provides an empirically adequate, yet formally restrictive solution to the problem of associating semantic interpretations with TAG derivations. In this paper, I further explore this approach, focusing on the semantics of reflexives. I find that STAG indeed permits a simple analysis of core cases of reflexives. This analysis does not, however, easily extend to contexts in which the reflexive and its antecedent are arguments of distinct elementary trees. I consider three possible extensions to the analysis which remedy these difficulties.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008