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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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