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On the Status of Phrases in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar: Illustration by a Fully Lexical Treatment of Extraction

Sylvain Kahane

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This paper proposes a new analysis of extraction in HPSG focused on the syntax-semantics interface. Contrary to previous analyses, our approach is totally lexical: linguistic information is exclusively introduced by the way of lexical descriptions and no phrasal descriptions are needed. Our analysis of wh-words is based on an idea of Tesnière, treating them simultaneously as complementizers and pronouns. In this way, the combination of the filler phrase with the rest of the clause involves two simultaneous combinations of words and both phrases act as the head in one of the two combinations. Our study allows for a precise comparison between HPSG and dependency grammars and poses the problem of the exact role of phrases in the syntax-semantics interface of a linguistic model. We argue that an HPSG without phrasal descriptions is more or less equivalent to a particular implementation of a DG and that the phrase structure only results from a particular choice in words' combination, that is, from a bottom-up covering of the dependency structure.

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Linguistique
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halshs-00649270 , version 1 (16-02-2021)

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Sylvain Kahane. On the Status of Phrases in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar: Illustration by a Fully Lexical Treatment of Extraction. Dependency in Linguistic Description, Benjamins, pp.111-150, 2009, Language Companion Series, ⟨10.1075/slcs.111.04kah⟩. ⟨halshs-00649270⟩
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