[Lingtyp] syntactic construction formula

[Siva Kalyan]

Why not take inspiration from autosegmental phonology, and have the Adv on a separate "tier"? Then in particular instantiations, you could have an association line between the Adv and a placeholder element that is either before the NP, between the NP and VP, or after the VP.

The disadvantage of this is that it would reify the idea of free word order, rather than making it clear that it’s just a representation of our ignorance of the true conditioning factors.

Siva

> On 21 Dec 2020, at 2:45 am, Christian Lehmann <christian.lehmann at uni-erfurt.de> wrote:
> 
> Let the adverb suddenly be my component C. Combined with the construction John screamed, my formula might look something like:
> 
> {Adv} NP {Adv} VP {Adv}
> 
> Is this a misleading use of curly brackets (referring to Ian Joo's suggestion, which I remember having seen in the early days of transformationalism) ? Or is there a more adequate representation?
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