[HPSG-L] Query about coordination
Shuichi Yatabe
shuichi.yatabe at gmail.com
Wed Jan 15 08:49:38 UTC 2025
Dear all,
I have two questions about sentences like the following ones, discussed in
Beavers and Sag's 2004 paper, "Coordinate ellipsis and apparent non-constituent
coordination":
(1) Jan travels to Rome tomorrow, to Paris on Friday, and will fly to
Tokyo on Sunday.
(2) Jan wanted to study medicine when he was 11, law when he was 13,
and to study nothing at all when he was 18.
In these examples, it seems that different strings have been left-node-raised
out of the conjuncts involved. For instance, sentence (1) looks like it involves
coordination of three VPs ("travels to Rome tomorrow", "travels to Paris on
Friday", and "will fly to Tokyo on Sunday"), and it seems that the string "travels"
has been left-node-raised out of the first and the second conjunct but not out of
the third conjunct.
My first question is, is this type of construction allowed in other languages?
(For what it's worth, it seems that it is allowed only marginally if at all
in the corresponding right-node raising examples in Japanese.)
And the second question is, has anybody written a paper on this type of construction,
apart from Pauline Jacobson, whose paper on this topic is available at
https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/007707 ?
Thank you so much in advance for any information.
Shuichi Yatabe
University of Tokyo
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