- Title
- Coordination: consequences of a lexical-functional account
- Creator
- Peterson, Peter G.
- Relation
- Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Vol. 22, Issue 3, p. 643-679
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:NALA.0000027673.49915.2b
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2004
- Description
- This paper presents an LFG-based analysis of coordination in terms of (non-headed) sets off-structures and the distribution of grammatical functional information across sets. This approach provides a descriptively adequate account of key properties of coordination, including the distribution of grammatical functions across all conjuncts, the ability to coordinate unlike categories under certain syntactic conditions, and the non-distribution of lexical properties such as tense and number. Coordination is subject to the condition that items can be conjoined if and only if they satisfy the condition of functional equivalence. This condition does not have to be stipulated; it follows as an axiom from the general principles of functional application to sets. Since coordination is not a headed construction, there is no percolation path for features from individual categories within a coordinate structure to the node dominating the coordination. Therefore lexical properties will not be shared across the coordination as a whole. The lack of distributivity allows individual conjuncts to differ in terms of lexical properties. In particular, it is expected, rather than exceptional, that coordinated NPs may differ in number, person, case and gender. The proposed account also predicts a high level of idiosyncrasy and variability with respect to 'agreement' between the subject NP and the verb and/or predicate complement.
- Subject
- LFG-based analysis; coordination; grammatical functional information; lexical properties
- Identifier
- uon:2315
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/28930
- Identifier
- ISSN:0167-806X
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