Symmetric Coordination : : An Alternative Theory of Phrase Structure / / Birgit Wesche.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• VerfasserIn: Wesche, Birgit,
• Place / Publishing House: Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2012]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Linguistische Arbeiten , 332
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Part I. Transformational Approaches to Coordination --; Chapter 1. The Grammatical Framework --; Chapter 2. Coordination Types --; Chapter 3. Past and Present Analyses --; Chapter 4. Neither Deletion Nor Reconstruction --; Part II. Shared Constituent Coordination --; Chapter 5. German Conjunctions --; Chapter 6 The Domain of Coordination --; Part III. An Alternative Theory of Phrase Structure --; Chapter 7. The Generalized X-scheme --; Chapter 8. Linearization --; Chapter 9. Modes of Interpretation --; Chapter 10. Linearization with Adjuncts --; Chapter 11. Closed versus Open Type Categories --; Chapter 12. Related Phenomena --; Chapter 13. Summary --; Bibliography
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110934687; 9783110636895
• ISSN: 0344-6727
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110934687
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Birgit Wesche.

Hitherto, the three symmetric coordination types Phrasal Coordination, Right Node Raising, and Gapping have been mostly treated in isolation. This book presents a successful attempt at developing a uniform approach - couched in a transformational framework, but also applicable to other grammatical approaches. But the account not only provides a common frame for coordination. In effect, it does away with the strict distinction between simplex and coordinate structures. The proposed approach - based on a natural extension to the classical X-scheme - is equally valid for both simplex and coordinate structures, and, thus, it presents a significant contribution to grammars of phrasal structures in general. This book presents a successful attempt at developing a uniform approach to symmetric coordination phenomena (Phrasal Coordination, Right Node Raising, and Gapping). But the account not only provides a common frame for coordination. In effect, it even provides a common frame for phrasal structures in general, since the proposed direct phrase structure approach is equally valid for both simplex and coordinate structures.