27.860, Diss: Polish, Syntax: Agnieszka Patejuk: 'Unlike Coordination in Polish: an LFG account'

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Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:44:31
From: Agnieszka Patejuk [aep at ipipan.waw.pl]
Subject: Unlike Coordination in Polish: an LFG account

 
Institution: Polish Academy of Sciences 
Program: N/A 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2015 

Author: Agnieszka Patejuk

Dissertation Title: Unlike Coordination in Polish: an LFG account 

Dissertation URL:  http://nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/Bib/pat:15.pdf

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Subject Language(s): Polish (pol)


Dissertation Director(s):
Adam Przepiórkowski

Dissertation Abstract:

This dissertation focuses on two coordination phenomena which are
non-standard: conjuncts are not identical categorially or they do not
correspond to the same grammatical function. It is based on rich attested data
taken from the National Corpus of Polish (NKJP) and retrieved using Google. It
offers a carefully formalised LFG analysis of these phenomena which is not an
isolated grammar fragment – it was implemented in XLE as a part of POLFIE, a
large scale LFG grammar of Polish. Such a design makes it possible to verify
the proposed analysis, taking interactions with various phenomena into account
– these include especially agreement, structural case assignment and control.
Interactions with these phenomena are also addressed in this work and their
formalisation is provided.

The issue of coordination of unlike categories was noticed in constraint-based
theories of grammar as early as 1985, see the discussion in Sag et al. 1985.
In LFG such coordination was mentioned in the so-called COMP vs OBJ debate
(e.g. Alsina et al. 2005), but since this discussion focused on how particular
grammatical functions should be defined, no formalised account of coordination
of unlike categories was offered and no constraints necessary to handle this
phenomenon were provided. As a result, this debate did not touch upon the
issue of imposing different constraints on particular conjuncts under
coordination, which turns out to be problematic in LFG because of the way in
which disjunctive statements are interpreted in this context. This
dissertation aims to fill this gap by discussing how unlike category
coordination can be modelled in LFG and showing in detail how the lexicon
should be designed to account for the coordination of unlike categories.

On the other hand, there is the phenomenon of coordination of different
grammatical functions – it is known under a wide range of names, including
hybrid coordination, lexico-semantic coordination and – more narrowly –
coordinated wh-questions. This dissertation provides evidence that real
coordination is involved in this phenomenon. It shows that conjuncts must
belong to the same semantic type and that the range of possible types is
usually restricted to wh-words and items which express various quantifiers,
though it also discusses less frequent conjunct types (together with how they
can be modified). Different types of dependents may be coordinated: arguments,
modifiers and even particles. Furthermore, conjuncts do not have to be
dependents of the same head – they may belong to different substructures of
the relevant f-structure. The dissertation offers a formalised analysis which
takes into account main (most frequent) classes of conjuncts taking part in
such coordination.

The dissertation is organised into 3 parts. The first part, assuming no
previous knowledge of LFG, introduces necessary basics of this formalism and
provides some information about selected phenomena of Polish syntax which are
important in the following discussion, including subject-verb agreement and
structural case assignment. The second, main, part discusses rich data related
to the two selected non-standard coordination phenomena which are the focus of
this work and provides formal LFG analyses of coordination of unlike
grammatical categories and coordination of different grammatical functions.
The third, last, part describes the implementation of the theoretical analyses
presented earlier in this work.




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