<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 20 Dec 2020, 16:45 Christian Lehmann, <<a href="mailto:christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de">christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Let the adverb <i>suddenly</i> be my component C. Combined with
the construction <i>John screamed</i>, my formula might look
something like:</p>
<p>{Adv} NP {Adv} VP {Adv}</p>
<p>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?<br></p></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">This would allow 0, 1, 2 or 3 'suddenly's, e.g.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"suddenly John suddenly screamed suddenly"...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Steve</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>