In defense of an HPSG-based theory of non-constituent coordination: A reply to Kubota and Levine
Shuichi Yatabe, Wai Lok Tam
July 2019
 

We show that Kubota and Levine's (2015) characterization of the HPSG-based theory of non-constituent coordination proposed in Yatabe (2001) and later works is inaccurate, and that the theory in question does not require any ad hoc mechanisms to account for the long-known fact that right-node raising and left-node raising can affect semantic interpretation. In the course of demonstrating this, we fill in some details of this HPSG-based theory that were left unspecified in the previous literature, and we also present novel accounts of split-antecedent relative clauses and of respectively interpretation that are consistent with the theory. Furthermore, we argue that the phenomenon of summative agreement may provide a reason to prefer this theory over CG-based theories like Kubota and Levine's.
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Reference: lingbuzz/003152
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Published in: The final version (which is slightly different from the version available here) has been published in Linguistics and Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-019-09283-6
keywords: right-node raising, left-node raising, cg, semantics, syntax
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