Constants of grammatical reasoning
Michael Moortgat · 2000
This is a screen version, enhanced with some dynamic features, of the paper that has appeared under the same title in Bouma, Hinrichs, Kruij# & Oehrle (eds.) Constraints and Resources in Natural Language Syntax and Semantics. CSLI, Stanford, 1999. You can use the # and # keys to move through the document. The # sign at the bottom of the screen brings you back from a hyperlink. Contents # Contents 1 Cognition = computation, grammar = logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.1 Grammatical resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.1.1 Composition: the form dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.1.2 Composition: the meaning dimension. . . . . . . . . . 16 1.1.3 Lexical versus derivational meaning. . . . . . . . . . . . 19 1.2 Grammatical reasoning: logic, structure and control . . . . . 20 2 Patterns for structural variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 2.1 English relativization: right branch extraction . . . . . . . . . . 31 2.2 Dutch relativization: left branch extraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 2.3 Dependency: blocking extraction from subjects . . . . . . . . . 43 3 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Contents # 1. Cognition = computation, grammar = logic Within current linguistic frameworks a rich variety of principles has been put forward to account for the properties of local and unbounded dependencies. Valency requirements of lexical items are checked by subcategorization principles in HPSG, principles of coherence and completeness in LFG, the theta criterion in GB. These are supplemented by, and interacting with, principles governing non-local dependencies: movement and empty category principles, slash featu...