...union
We are grateful to Gerald Gazdar for suggesting this term as a characterisation of the approach to standardisation undertaken.
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...c-command
A node A c-commands a node B iff A does not dominate B and the first branching node dominating A also dominates B.
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...c-command
See Manzini (1983), Chomsky (1986b) and references therein.
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...HREF=#3ex24#767>)
The raising/equi distinction is represented by encoding pleonastic arguments outside the angle brackets which delimit arguments which are semantically selected.
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...CONTENT
Broadly speaking the CATEGORY attribute of a sign contains information about its part of speech, subcategorisation requirements and possible markers. The CONTENT attribute provides information about its argument structure.
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...psoa
Parameterised state-of-affairs.
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...roles
Some proposals have been recently made to fill this gap, see Davis (1996) and Sanfilippo (1995a), Sanfilippo (1995b).
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...1
The four types are: `*' for understood subject of infinitive or imperative; `0' for zero variant of that in subordinate clauses; `T' for Trace, which marks position where a moved wh-constituent is interpreted; and `NIL' which marks position where a preposition is interpreted in pied-piping contexts.
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...ill-formedness
It must be noted that judgements on these sentences by native speakers are not uniform.
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...theme
I.e. ``Being an incremental theme'' is the property ascribed to the argument of a verb whose reference properties are involved in the determination of telic aspect for the event denoted by the resulting verb phrase or sentence, e.g. drink NP describes either a process or an accomplishment according to whether the NP has cumulative (beer) or quantised (a beer) reference).
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