1. EXTRACTION ASYMMETRIES SHOW THAT TYPE A COORDINATION IS ADJUNCTION.
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NEELEMAN, AD and MISAKO TANAKA
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EXTRACTION (Linguistics) , *GENERATIVE grammar , *PSYCHOLINGUISTICS , *LEXICAL grammar , *LEXICAL phonology - Abstract
Ross (1967) observed that the coordinate structure constraint can be violated in certain semantically asymmetric structures. In this article we consider one of these structures, namely type A coordination, in detail (the terminology is from Lakoff 1986; an example is Here's the whisky I went to the store and bought). We present experimental evidence showing that the pattern of argument and adjunct extraction from type A coordinate structures matches the pattern of argument and adjunct extraction from structures containing rationale clauses in all crucial respects. This near-perfect parallel behavior suggests that, like rationale clauses, the second conjunct in a type A coordination is an adjunct (see also Brown 2017). We explore the consequences of this finding for both interpretive and syntactic analyses of asymmetric coordination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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