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Abstract
There is agreement across different approaches that although sentences consist of words, they are much more than strings of words: They also have structure. Section 1 shows how clause structure is analysed very differently across different approaches. The rest of the paper addresses ambiguity: lexical ambiguity in section 2, morphological structural ambiguity in section 3, and syntactic structural ambiguity in section 4. Subsections 4.1-4.2 analyse the ambiguity arising when a constituent, e.g. a PP, is interpretable either as the sister of one constituent or of another constituent. Subsection 4.3 argues that the ambiguous examples analysed in all of section 4 cannot be accounted for within approaches that do not recognise a constituent that contains a verb and its complement (i.e. a VP).
| Translated title of the contribution | Clause structure and structural ambiguities |
|---|---|
| Original language | Danish |
| Journal | Ny Forskning i Grammatik |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 176-190 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| ISSN | 1902-1291 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2019 |
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Similarities and Differences between Clauses and Nominals - Comparative Syntax across Theoretical Approaches
Vikner, S. (Project manager), Engels, E. (Participant), Krogh, S. (Participant), Nølke, H. (Participant), Tafteberg, K. P. (Participant) & Wood, J. (Participant)
01/02/2008 → 31/12/2012
Project: Research
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Object positions - Comparative linguistics in a cross-theoretical perspective
Jørgensen, H. J. (Project manager), Vikner, S. (Project manager), Bjerre, T. (Participant) & Engels, E. (Participant)
01/04/2005 → 30/06/2007
Project: Research