ellipse treatment in LFG

Fri Apr 5 14:55:54 UTC 2013

Hi Augustin,

This topic `gapping' I dealt with it within LFG framework as my MA
dissertation titled "*Gapping and Right-Node raising: an LFG approach*"....
we did the analysis on Gapping in Hijazi Arabic and we did some references
to other languages as well... we found that the well-assumed approach in
LFG, to my knowledge, is  Maxwell and Maaning's approach.. However, this
approach, as far as we can see,  seems to fail to account for Gapping so,
we adopt a function spreading approach to Gapping in HA within this
framework and show how it is able to account for the facts of Gapping in HA
identied in this study, using mechanisms proposed independently for other
construction types. The abstract for the analysis is attached... if you
find it interesting, hopefully, you can download it from here

http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/dissertations/2010/list.aspx

Wish you the best, and keep me updated with what you find :)

Muhammad

 Muhammad ALZAIDI
PhD student
University of Essex
Department of Language and Linguistics
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~msalza/
"Things become much easier if we wait and think!"

On 5 April 2013 13:26, Augustin Borsu <aborsu at ulb.ac.be> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Sorry if this message is not appropriate to the discussion board, but I
> don't really know where to turn for help.
> I'm trying to find more information on how to analyse a sentence like :
>
> Mary ate chocolate and Peter fruits.
>
> I've been reading chapter 1 of Anne Abeillé, Les nouvelles syntaxes
> unfortunately I only have access to the 1993 version.
> I'm also reading volume 34 of Syntax and Semantics, titled Lexical
> Functional Grammar by Mary Dalrymple from 2001 and I've stumbled upon the
> 160th volume of Langage from 2005 which put exact words on what I was
> looking for at the top of page 4. (Danièle Godard).
> (iii) Comment les grammaires syntagmatiques peuvent-elles rendre compte
> des coordinations à **
> <http://www.cairn.info.ezproxy.ulb.ac.be/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=LANG_160_0003&DocId=87554&Index=%2Fcairn2Idx%2Fcairn&TypeID=226&BAL=ancLKmnMCXONs&HitCount=23&hits=30bf+305f+2e19+2e03+2aea+2aad+2528+2517+24fd+24a7+2407+23d7+2357+2200+201d+1a22+13c4+11dd+4b2+4aa+3db+394+141+0&fileext=html#hit0>
> ellipse<http://www.cairn.info.ezproxy.ulb.ac.be/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=LANG_160_0003&DocId=87554&Index=%2Fcairn2Idx%2Fcairn&TypeID=226&BAL=ancLKmnMCXONs&HitCount=23&hits=30bf+305f+2e19+2e03+2aea+2aad+2528+2517+24fd+24a7+2407+23d7+2357+2200+201d+1a22+13c4+11dd+4b2+4aa+3db+394+141+0&fileext=html#hit2>
> **, avec une séquence non présente phonétiquement, mais néanmoins
> suppléée par l’interprétation ?
>
> But unfortunately the next paragraph states that they will not talk about
> this in that issue.
>
> Most of the examples I have found treat a case where a syntagm is divided
> by a conjuction and the result is two identical structures with different
> values.
> With for example SN -> SN Conj SN and the values of the two daughter SN
> become a set of the head. This works if the two daughters have the same f
> structure, but I can't really do this with the sentence I'm concerned with.
> I was tempted to do a rule that would look like P -> P (P')* Conj P'
> The first daughter  P would then be the head of the mother P and every P'
> would be part of a set which would  receive the PRED value from the mother
> P.
> Can I do that?
>
> Being a newcomer to the academic world and even more to LFG, i'm a little
> lost and I was wondering if someone could help find more information on the
> subject. (either in english, french, russian or dutch)
> Sorry to disturb you,
> Sincerely,
>
> Augustin Borsu
>
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