A Comprehensive Analysis of Constituent Coordination for Grammar Engineering
Agnieszka Patejuk, Adam Przepià rkowski · 2012
This paper provides an explicit, formal analysis of two not only interesting but also frequent coordination phenomena: the coordination of unlike categories and the coordination of distinct grammatical functions possibly belonging to entirely different levels of structure. The proposed account of the former makes it possible to take full advantage of new generation valence dictionaries which encode information about the possibility of such non-standard coordination, creating new possibilities for existing grammar implementations. Furthermore, interactions with complex phenomena such as case assignment are taken into consideration, providing a solution which may be adopted for modelling similar phenomena in other languages. The other variety of coordination addressed in this paper sheds some new light on coordination and how it should be modelled. It demonstrates on the basis of attested data that coordination is subject to fewer constraints than previously assumed and provides an elegant linguistically-motivated solution employing currently available LFG mechanisms. TITLE AND ABSTRACT IN POLISH Kompleksowa analiza koordynacji składnikowej