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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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    <div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
      <p style="font-size:90%">Prof. em. Dr. Christian Lehmann<br>
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