[Lingtyp] syntactic construction formula

[Steve Pepper]

On Sun, 20 Dec 2020, 16:45 Christian Lehmann, <
christian.lehmann at uni-erfurt.de> wrote:

> Let the adverb *suddenly* be my component C. Combined with the
> construction *John screamed*, my formula might look something like:
>
> {Adv} NP {Adv} VP {Adv}
>
> 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?
>
This would allow 0, 1, 2 or 3 'suddenly's, e.g.

"suddenly John suddenly screamed suddenly"...

Steve
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