<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">We came across the same problem in our Norwegian XLE-implemented grammar, and noticed that a consequence of this property of XLE is that a seemingly exhaustive disjunction { P | ~P } is not necessarily exhaustive when sets are involved. I.e., if ! is a set, then the constraint<div><br></div><div>{ (! F)=c v</div><div> …</div><div>| ~(! F)=v</div><div> … }</div><div><br></div><div>does not cover the cases where only some of the set members satisfy (! F)=c v. Worth bearing in mind for the grammar writer.</div><div><br></div><div>Helge</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>Den 17. okt. 2012 kl. 13:04 skrev Mary Dalrymple:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>You could think of this as an instance of Wasow's Generalization, which Sadler and Nordlinger state as follows:<br><br>Wasow’s Generalization: An element in construction with a coordinate constituent must be syntactically construable with each conjunct<br><br>If an element is constrained by the grammar in some negative or positive way, then if that element is a coordinate structure, each of the conjuncts must be constrained in the same negative or positive way. <br><br> - Mary<br><br><br><br>________________________________________<br>From: Lexical-Functional Grammar List [<a href="mailto:lfg@listserv.linguistlist.org">lfg@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>] on behalf of Adam Przepiorkowski [<a href="mailto:adamp@IPIPAN.WAW.PL">adamp@IPIPAN.WAW.PL</a>]<br>Sent: 16 October 2012 17:50<br>To: <a href="mailto:LFG@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG">LFG@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a><br>Subject: Re: [LFG] satisfiability of (f FEATURE) =/= VALUE in coordination?<br><br>Dear John,<br><br>Many thanks for your quick reply!<br><br><blockquote type="cite">(f CASE) ~= ACC is NOT SATISFIED in this case. In effect, the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">distribution gets wide-scope relative to the negation. This seems to fit<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the linguistic facts better than giving the negation wide scope.<br></blockquote><br>We understand that this is the decision taken in the XLE *implementation*,<br>but I've been wondering if there is any *theoretical* justification for<br>or discussion of such scoping in the LFG literature?<br><br>All best,<br><br>Adam P.<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Cheers,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">John<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On 10/16/12 9:14 AM, "Adam Przepiorkowski" <<a href="mailto:adamp@IPIPAN.WAW.PL">adamp@IPIPAN.WAW.PL</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Dear All,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">It's probably a newcomer's question – apologies if so.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Imagine a coordination of two phrases, accusative and genitive (LFG<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">literature knows such examples from Russian). Assume – as usual – that<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">CASE is a distributive feature. What is the satisfiability of the<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">following trivial statement for such a coordinate phrase f?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">(f CASE) =/= ACC<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Two answers:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">1. SATISFIED because 1) it's the same thing as "NOT ((f CASE) =c ACC)",<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> and 2) "(f CASE) =c ACC" is not satisfied (it is not satisfied for<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> one of the conjuncts),<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">2. NOT SATISFIED because "(f CASE) =/= ACC" is not satisfied for one of<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> the conjuncts.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">XLE seems to favour the latter answer, but – given how negation is<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">defined in LFG (e.g., Dalrymple 2001, pp. 111–112) – we would expect the<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">former.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">It seems that we are essentially asking about the relative scope of<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">negation and distribution.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">All best,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Adam Przepiórkowski<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Agnieszka Patejuk<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Adam Przepiórkowski ˈadam ˌpʃɛpjurˈkɔfskʲi<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://clip.ipipan.waw.pl/">http://clip.ipipan.waw.pl/</a> ____ Computational Linguistics in Poland<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/">http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/</a> ___________ Journal of Language Modelling<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/">http://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/</a> ____________ Linguistic Engineering Group<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://nkjp.pl/">http://nkjp.pl/</a> _________________________ National Corpus of Polish<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>--<br>Adam Przepiórkowski ˈadam ˌpʃɛpjurˈkɔfskʲi<br>Zespół Inżynierii Lingwistycznej _____ <a href="http://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/">http://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/</a><br>Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego _____ <a href="http://nkjp.pl/">http://nkjp.pl/</a><br>Journal of Language Modelling ________ <a href="http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/">http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/</a><br>Polska Lista Językoznawcza ___________ <a href="http://tnij.org/pling">http://tnij.org/pling</a></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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