You are here: Home :: Area CULI :: Linguistics and literature :: Communication science

Timothy Osborne

Shared Material and Grammar: Toward A Dependency Grammar Theory of Non-Gapping Coordination for English and German

Keywords: Coordination, dependency grammar, constituency grammar, shared material, gapping, constituent structure

The paper presents a dependency grammar theory of non-gapping coordination. The approach draws a distinction between standard cases of coordination – called String Coordination – and gapping. Only small conjuncts are acknowledged. The core of the approach is expressed in terms of three constraints – the Contiguity Requirement (CR), the Parallelism Requirement (PR), and the Restriction on Shared Constituents (RSC) – that restrict which strings may be coordinated and in terms of the material that conjuncts may share. The claims made are valid for both English and German.

Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0721-9067
Volume: 25, 06/2006
Pages: 39 - 93

Show full article (external site)

Show all available items of this journal

 

Area CULI