Coordination and multi-relational modelling: 'X and X' revisited
F.A. Grootjen, V. Kamphuis, Janos J. Sarbo · 1999
A relational model of language is developed which unifies traditional features of X-bar theory with lexicon based modelling. It is argued that such a model provides the appropriate basis for handling problematic cases of non-constituent coordination and gapping. A prototype implementation is discussed on the basis of six representative examples, corpus-based. 1. Introduction The standard approach to coordination describes coordinate structures in terms of identical conjuncts: X ! X and X (henceforth: the `X and X'-approach). In the context of this approach, there is some discussion as to the nature of the conjuncts X. The original view takes X to be a syntactic category; however, there are many examples illustrating that this view cannot be upheld. More successful alternatives describe conjuncts in terms of syntactic functions (e.g. Dik, 1968), syntactic features (e.g. GPSG, Sag et al., 1985), categorial type (Categorial Grammar, e.g. Steedman, 1990) or a combination of these, but no...