26.412, Qs: Term for syntactic coordination and subordination

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Subject: 26.412, Qs: Term for syntactic coordination and subordination

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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:25:55
From: Richard Evans [r.j.evans at wlv.ac.uk]
Subject: Term for syntactic coordination and subordination

 
Hello,

I work in natural language processing on the topic of automatic syntactic
simplification. In this sub-field, researchers have used the term ''syntactic
complexity'' to denote various syntactic phenomena, including subordination
and coordination.

I note that in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, ''syntactic
complexity'' includes object relative clauses and garden path sentences in its
denotation but excludes coordination and subject relative clauses.
With a view to consistency, I wonder whether any researchers out there are
aware of an acceptable ''umbrella term'' referring to both syntactic
coordination and syntactic subordination. It will make descriptions of the
language technology I am developing much easier!
Please let me know if you have any suggestions.

Many thanks in advance!
Richard
 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Neurolinguistics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Syntax






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