A nonsolution for a problem of PP extraction
Jeff Goldberg · Linguistic Inquiry · 1985
A NONSOLUTION FOR A PROBLEM OF PP EXTRACTION Jeff Goldberg, Stanford University Sag (1982) offers a solution to a difficult problem of extraction from coordinate structures. He claims that his solution predicts new facts in an unrelated domain, solving a long-standing problem involving prepositional phrases. I will show here that Sag's modification of the overall theory proposed in Gazdar (1981; 1982) and elsewhere does not, in fact, solve the prepositional phrase problem that he discusses. Sag's proposal is intended to account for the ungrammaticality of the extraction of conjuncts as in (2).