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A principled characterization of dislocated phrases: Capturing barriers with Static Discontinuity Grammars

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Parsing according to the principles of modern linguistic theory is only now becoming a computationally interesting task. We contribute to these developments by illustrating how the account of movement introduced by Chomsky inBarriers can be incorporated into a Static Discontinuity Grammar (SDG). We are concerned with A'-movement as reflected inwh movement of arguments and adjuncts. The resulting SDG can be processed by an SDG parser to recover the thematic information and constitutency structure associated with a natural language sentence.

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  1. School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, V 5A 1S6, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

    Veronica Dahl & Fred Popowich

  2. Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia, Canada

    Michael Rochemont

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Dahl, V., Popowich, F. & Rochemont, M. A principled characterization of dislocated phrases: Capturing barriers with Static Discontinuity Grammars. Linguist Philos 16, 331–352 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00985271

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