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An HPSG account of closest conjunct agreement in NP coordination in Portuguese

Year: 2005

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This paper discusses the NP-internal agreement strategies observed in an empirical (corpus based) study of Portuguese, and proposes an analysis which is formalized in the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). The empirical study suggests that what were previously thought to be rare or non-existent strategies occur with surprising frequency. Capturing these strategies poses problems for many standard approaches to agreement. The formalization shows how they can be captured with a relatively conservative extension of the existing HPSG theory of agreement.

Source: Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

DOI: 10.21248/hpsg.2005.25

Authors: Aline Villavicencio, Louisa Sadler, Doug Arnold

Institutions: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, University of Essex

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1908207997

FWCI: 10.99

Cites: 11

Cited by: 24

Related to: 10