<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Siva<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 21 Dec 2020, at 2:45 am, Christian Lehmann <<a href="mailto:christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de" class="">christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class=""><p class="">Let the adverb <i class="">suddenly</i> be my component C. Combined with
the construction <i class="">John screamed</i>, my formula might look
something like:</p><p class="">{Adv} NP {Adv} VP {Adv}</p><p class="">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 class="">
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