Aaron, you probably have already received email about this privately, but in any case<br>LFG enjoys large-scale, industrial-strength grammars of English that<br>are certain to have analyses of these constructions. I suspect that Miriam and Tracy's cookbook will have analyses, as well....
<br><br>Best wishes,<br>Joan<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">George Aaron Broadwell</b> <<a href="mailto:g.broadwell@gmail.com">g.broadwell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear colleagues,<br><br>Can someone direct me to some phrase structure rules for English NP/QP that would actually produce the correct results for examples like the following?<br><br>all John's red books<br>John's few red book
<br>those few books<br>most of those books<br>all five of those books<br><br><br>This is for classroom use and not for any highly theoretical purpose -- I would just like some rules and lexical entries for quantifiers, however clunky, that would produce the right results for English. Most English syntax books on my shelf say nothing at all interesting about this. The closest thing I find to a systematic discussion of this is McCawley's
<span style="font-style: italic;">Syntactic phenomena of English</span>. But I am probably missing some key source, and would appreciate a pointer.<br><br>Thanks<br><span class="sg">Aaron Broadwell<br>
</span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Joan Bresnan<br>Stanford University <br><a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~bresnan/">http://www.stanford.edu/~bresnan/</a>