[Lingtyp] syntactic construction formula

[Christian Lehmann]

Am 21.12.20 um 00:50 schrieb 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.
This looks to me as an appropriate representation rather than as a 
reification of the idea of free word order. I think that if I want to 
avoid allotting more than one line to my structural representation, it 
pretty much comes down  to my last suggestions. Thanks.
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