Compositional trace conversion

IF 1.1 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
R. Pasternak
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Abstract

In order to eliminate traces as stipulated grammatical objects, syntactic movement has been reformulated in terms of multiple-merge : it is the result of the same constituent being merged into the structure multiple times, using either copies or multidominance structures . In spite of their empirical and conceptual advantages, multiple-merge theories pose known challenges for the semantic interpretation of movement, as there are no variable-denoting traces in lower positions. The most common means of resolving this conundrum is trace conversion (Fox 2002, 2003), in which either a syntactic operation makes alterations at lower merge sites in order to generate trace-like interpretations, or the semantics behaves as if such a syntactic operation had occurred. In this paper I discuss problems faced by presently formulated versions of trace conversion and propose an alternative, compositional trace conversion , in which multiple-merge structures can be directly interpreted in a straightforwardly compositional manner. This approach is shown to generalize well, extending to modals and degree phrases as well as DPs. EARLY ACCESS
成分痕迹转换
为了消除作为规定语法对象的痕迹,句法运动被重新表述为多重合并:它是同一成分被多次合并到结构中的结果,使用复制结构或多名词结构。尽管多重融合理论在经验和概念上具有优势,但它们对运动的语义解释提出了已知的挑战,因为没有变量表示较低位置的痕迹。解决这一难题的最常见方法是痕迹转换(Fox 20022003),在这种转换中,语法操作在较低的合并位置进行更改,以生成类似痕迹的解释,或者语义表现得好像发生了这样的语法操作。在本文中,我讨论了目前公式化的痕迹转换版本所面临的问题,并提出了一种替代方案,即组合痕迹转换,其中多个合并结构可以直接以直接的组合方式进行解释。这种方法被证明可以很好地推广,可以推广到语气词、程度短语以及DP。早期访问
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