Topic: HUMAN SEMANTICS
Respective Answers to Coordinated Questions
By Jean Mark Gawron & Andrew Kehler
Munn’s examples are instances of respective readings and not functional readings. Our analysis captures these readings, as well as those for a range of other filler-gap constructions, since RESP operators routinely intervene between constituent-based dependencies in the syntax and predicate-argument relations in the semantics. As a result we are able to account for cases that share essential characteristics with Munn’s examples but which are not candidates for a functional analysis. These same examples conspire to demonstrate that the identity constraint on ATB extraction cannot be maintained.
Source: Semantics Archive
Posted by Tony Marmo
at 05:41 BST
Updated: Friday, 12 August 2005 05:43 BST
