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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 20 Dec 2020, 16:45
Christian Lehmann, <<a
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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>
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<div dir="auto">This would allow 0, 1, 2 or 3 'suddenly's, e.g.</div>
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<div dir="auto">"suddenly John suddenly screamed suddenly"...</div>
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<p>Are you talking about an established interpretation of { } ?
Otherwise, I would answer that yours is a standard interpretation
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<p>(Adv) NP (Adv) VP (Adv)</p>
<p>(which is, of course, no construction of English). On the other
hand, I would, of course, define the suggested use of {X} to mean
'one occurrence of X in any of the positions so marked'.<br>
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