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<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3333ff"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3333ff">This topic `gapping' I dealt with it within LFG framework as my MA dissertation titled "<u>Gapping and Right-Node raising: an LFG approach</u>".... we did the analysis on Gapping in Hijazi Arabic and we did some references to other languages as well... we found that the well-assumed approach in LFG, to my knowledge, is Maxwell and Maaning's approach.. However, this approach, as far as we can see, seems to fail to account for Gapping so, we <span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">adopt a function spreading approach to Gapping in HA within this framework and show </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">how it is able to account for the facts of Gapping in HA identied in this study, using </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">mechanisms proposed independently for other construction types. </span>The abstract for the analysis is attached... if you find it interesting, hopefully, you can download it from here</font></div>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3333ff">Wish you the best, and keep me updated with what you find :)</font></div>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080">Muhammad ALZAIDI<br>PhD student<br>University of Essex<br>Department of Language and Linguistics <br><a href="http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~msalza/">http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~msalza/</a><br>
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</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,255)"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 April 2013 13:26, Augustin Borsu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aborsu@ulb.ac.be" target="_blank">aborsu@ulb.ac.be</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hello,<div><br></div><div>Sorry if this message is not appropriate to the discussion board, but I don't really know where to turn for help.</div>
<div>I'm trying to find more information on how to analyse a sentence like :</div><div><br></div><div>Mary ate chocolate and Peter fruits.</div><div><br></div><div>I've been reading chapter 1 of Anne Abeillé, Les nouvelles syntaxes unfortunately I only have access to the 1993 version.</div>
<div>I'm also reading volume 34 of Syntax and Semantics, titled Lexical Functional Grammar by Mary Dalrymple from 2001 and I've stumbled upon the 160th volume of Langage from 2005 which put exact words on what I was looking for at the top of page 4. (Danièle Godard).</div>
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<div><br></div><div>But unfortunately the next paragraph states that they will not talk about this in that issue.</div><div><br></div><div>Most of the examples I have found treat a case where a syntagm is divided by a conjuction and the result is two identical structures with different values.</div>
<div>With for example SN -> SN Conj SN and the values of the two daughter SN become a set of the head. This works if the two daughters have the same f structure, but I can't really do this with the sentence I'm concerned with.</div>
<div>I was tempted to do a rule that would look like P -> P (P')* Conj P' </div><div>The first daughter P would then be the head of the mother P and every P' would be part of a set which would receive the PRED value from the mother P.</div>
<div>Can I do that?</div><div><br></div><div>Being a newcomer to the academic world and even more to LFG, i'm a little lost and I was wondering if someone could help find more information on the subject. (either in english, french, russian or dutch)</div>
<div>Sorry to disturb you,</div><div>Sincerely,</div><div><br></div><div>Augustin Borsu</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>