Journal article
Mixed projections and syntactic categories
- Abstract:
- I explore the bases of a ‘distributionalist’ approach to syntactic categories, i.e. an approach which makes distinctions on the basis of purely syntactic (as opposed to, say, semantic) criteria. I focus on the phenomenon of ‘mixed projections’, where a syntactic phrase appears to display properties of more than one syntactic category, as analysed within the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. I argue that of the three syntactic criteria called upon in the definition of syntactic categories within this approach only one, the internal syntactic structure of a phrase, is a sufficient criterion for syntactic categorization. This leads to a more restricted definition of category mixing, and implies a more restricted approach to categorization in general
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1017/S0022226719000100
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- Journal of Linguistics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 56
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 315-357
- Publication date:
- 2019-03-22
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-02-15
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1469-7742
- ISSN:
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0022-2267
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976423
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- Cambridge University Press
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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- © Cambridge University Press 2019. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Cambridge University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226719000100
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