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Frank van Eynde: Pied Piping is a Local Dependency
To model the pied piping in interrogative and exclamative clauses
Ginzburg & Sag (2000)
proposes a nonlocal head-driven treatment, thus emphasizing the
resemblances with extraction. This treatment has
a number of drawbacks: it relies
on poorly motivated lexical rules and nonbranching phrase structure rules,
it makes false predictions about pied piping in PPs, and it
presupposes an implausible structure for NPs with predeterminers.
To solve these problems I propose an alternative in which
pied piping is treated as a local functor-driven dependency.
Technically, the WH feature is integrated in the
CATEGORY objects, and the propagation of its values
is modeled by constraints which are independently needed for the
treatment of other phenomena.
Maintained by Stefan Müller
Created: October 15, 2004
Last modified: March 10, 2008
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