predicatives and adjuncts

[Lara Taylor]

Hi -

Here's the one reference I know of:

Kasper, Robert T.  1994.  "Adjuncts in the Mittelfeld".  In _German in
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar_ ed. Nerbonne, Netter & Pollard.
CSLI Lecture Notes no. 46.  Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

This paper disusses some of the issues for having multiple adjuncts in
German, specifically within the Mittelfeld, where both adjuncts and
complements can appear.  Some of the discussion may be useful for your
more general questions about the analysis of adjuncts in HPSG.

Hope this helps.

Lara

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Lara M. Taylor
http://www.ling.ucsd.edu/~ltaylor
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On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Kiril Simov wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I am sending this on behalf of Milena Slavcheva.
>
> Kiril
>
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> Dear HPSG-ers,
>
> I have a question related to HPSG analysis of predicative constructions.
>
> The tendency in the HPSG literature is to treat primary predicatives (as in
> Examples 1 and 2) as a construct where a semantically vacuous predicate
> (the copula) takes an XP as a complement (or as a variant the construct is
> that of a copula subcategorizing for a lexical element and sharing the
> arguments with that element). This is the generally accepted analysis in
> Pollard & Sag 1987, Pollard & Sag 1994, Miller & Sag 1997, Przepiorkowski
> 2000a, Przepiorkowski 2000b.
>
> 1) Jenata                       e   vesela. (Bulgarian)
>      Woman-the[fem,sg]   is   happy[fem,sg]
>      'The woman is happy.'
>
> 2) Jenata           e    v     gradinata.  (Bulgarian)
>      Woman-the   is   in    garden-the.
>      'The woman is in the garden.'
>
> As for secondary predicatives (example 3), the tendency is to treat the
> phrases in question as adjuncts since they are not obligatory and do not
> satisfy argument requirements but add to the semantics of the VP they
> modify. (Certainly, we have to be aware of the fact that in this structural
> configuration the issue of complementation and adjunction is strongly
> defined by the subcategorization properties of the verbs). The tendency of
> this analysis can be retraced in Pollard & Sag 1987, Pollard & Sag 1994.
>
> 3)
> Jenata                           vleze       v       stayata
> vesela.
> Woman-the[fem,sg]            go-past   into   room-the        happy[fem,sg]
> 'The woman entered the room happy.'
>
> The question is: are you aware of any attempts in the HPSG community to
> analyze primary predicative phrases as adjuncts?
>
> In connection with that there arises the more general and very important
> issue of the application of the HPSG mechanisms of adjuncts: adjuncts being
> lexical and phrasal, adjuncts selecting for the heads they modify via the
> MOD feature, adjuncts being the semantic heads in the semantic composition
> of the sentence.
> Thus references to works on the application of the adjunction mechanisms
> are greatly appreciated as well.
>
> References cited above:
> [Miller & Sag 1997] Miller, P., I. Sag. French Clitic Movement without
> Clitics or Movement, 1997.
>
> [Pollard & Sag 1987]  Pollard, C., I. Sag. Information-Based Syntax and
> Semantics. CSLI Publications, 1987.
>
> [Pollard & Sag 1994]  Pollard, C., I. Sag. Head-Driven Phrase Structure
> Grammar. CSLI Publications, 1994.
>
> [Przepiórkowski 2000a] Przepiórkowski, A. ARG-ST on Phrases Headed by
> Semantically Vacuous Words: Evidence from Polish. In: CSLI On-Line
> Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase
> Structure Grammar, Berkeley, 22-23 July, 2000.
>
> [Przepiórkowski 2000b] Przepiórkowski, A. Predicative case agreement with
> Quantifier Phrases in Polish. Paper presented at the UNC Linguistics
> Colloquium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 8, 2000.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Milena
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