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Minimal c-structure: rethinking projection in phrase structure
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This paper addresses the formal properties of constituent structure (cstructure). We demonstrate inadequacies in the formalization of traditional X 0 theory by Bresnan (2001) and Bresnan et al. (2016), and in the alternative proposal of Marcotte (2014). We propose “minimal c-structure” as a new approach to phrase structure within Lexical-Functional Grammar, which almost entirely eliminates non-branching nodes, and neatly captures the distinction between projecting and non-projecting words. Ou...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- CSLI Publications Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Proceedings of the LFG’17 Conference, University of Konstanz Journal website
- Pages:
- 285–305
- Host title:
- Proceedings of the LFG’17 Conference, University of Konstanz
- Publication date:
- 2018-01-17
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-11-12
- ISSN:
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1098-6782
- Source identifiers:
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835747
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- pubs:835747
- Deposit date:
- 2018-04-16
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- CSLI Publications
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- Copyright © CSLI Publications. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from CSLI Publications at: https://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/LFG-2017/abstr-lovestrand-lowe.shtml
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