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Borsley R D wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Thanks. I did more or less read the thesis some time ago. I'm told though
that edge inflections are not quite the same thing as phrasal affixes.
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Dear Bob, <br>
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as far as I'm aware there is currently no proposal of *Andersonian*
phrasal affixation in HPSG. Jesse Tseng has suggested some way of
integrating the Miller/Halpern approach into HPSG. <br>
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Edge inflection appears to be the more restrictive variant of phrasal
affixation: it is very precise about the locus of morphology
(terminals). Furthermore, properties to be expressed peripherally in a
phrase must be indeed phrasal properties. Also trigger feature
percolation is highly restricted. <br>
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Andersonian phrasal affixation can be thought of as a morphological
process directly targetting phrases. <br>
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There is a discussion which may shed some light on the distinction: in
my 2002 thesis, I show that the Miller/Halpern variant cannot
satisfactorily address the issue of European Portuguese clitics taking
wide scope over a coodination of hosts or host VPs. <br>
Luis & Sadler and Luis & Spencer argue that this issue can be
overcome if an Andersonian variant is adopted. See, however, the
slides from my Vienna 2004 presentation
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~crysmann/papers/">http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~crysmann/papers/</a> ; the link is somewhere at
the bottom of the page) for detailed criticism of that proposal. <br>
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Cheers,<br>
<br>
Berthold<br>
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<pre wrap="">This matters to me because Welsh has certain 'clitics' which I don't think
can be edge inflections bt might be phrasal affixes as I understsnd the
notion (which is not very well).
best
Bob
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Philip Miller wrote:
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<pre wrap="">A 15:33 29/06/2004 +0100, Borsley R D a écrit :
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<pre wrap="">Does anyone know of any HPSG work employing Anderson's notion of a phrasal
affix?
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Dear Bob,
My PhD thesis (Clitics and Constituents in Phrase Structure Grammar, 1992,
Garland, New York, out of print, but there is a downloadable version at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.univ-lille3.fr/silex/miller/these_en.html">http://www.univ-lille3.fr/silex/miller/these_en.html</a>, and I can send a
printed copy if needed) proposed a formalization of phrasal affixes in
terms of something I called the Edge Feature Principle. This was in part
developed in joint work with Aaron Halpern, and some discussion can also be
found in the published verison of his dissertation (Halpern, Aaron L. 1995.
On the placement and morphology of clitics. Stanford: CSLI publications.).
The discussion was in a hybrid GPSG / HPSG framework, with feature
percolation principles a la GPSG, but valence features. It may still be of
use, however,
Best,
Philip
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