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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789097103321

Autore

Wesche Birgit

Titolo

Symmetric coordination : an alternative theory of phrase structure / / Birgit Wesche

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tùˆbingen : , : M. Niemeyer, , 1995

ISBN

3-11-093468-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Linguistische Arbeiten, , 0344-6727 ; ; 332

Classificazione

ET 650

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Coordinate constructions

Phrase structure grammar

Generative grammar

German language - Coordinate constructions

German language - Grammar, Generative

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-217).

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. Transformational Approaches to Coordination -- Chapter 1. The Grammatical Framework -- Chapter 2. Coordination Types -- Chapter 3. Past and Present Analyses -- Chapter 4. Neither Deletion Nor Reconstruction -- Part II. Shared Constituent Coordination -- Chapter 5. German Conjunctions -- Chapter 6 The Domain of Coordination -- Part III. An Alternative Theory of Phrase Structure -- Chapter 7. The Generalized X-scheme -- Chapter 8. Linearization -- Chapter 9. Modes of Interpretation -- Chapter 10. Linearization with Adjuncts -- Chapter 11. Closed versus Open Type Categories -- Chapter 12. Related Phenomena -- Chapter 13. Summary -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Hitherto, the three symmetric coordination types Phrasal Coordination, Right Node Raising, and Gapping have been mostly treated in isolation. This book presents a successful attempt at developing a uniform approach - couched in a transformational framework, but also applicable to other grammatical approaches.  But the account not only provides a common frame for coordination. In effect, it does away with the strict distinction between simplex and coordinate structures. The proposed approach - based on a natural extension to the classical X-



scheme - is equally valid for both simplex and coordinate structures, and, thus, it presents a significant contribution to grammars of phrasal structures in general.