Functional Parasitic Gaps

Islands coordination and parasitic gaps

We present type logical grammar of left extraction with attention to islands coordination and parasitic gaps We consider implementation in proof nets The account suggests a measure of the semigrammaticality of island violations Data Coordination might be thought a test for constituency but it is possible to coordinate elements which are non constituents on most any theory Consider for example R...

Parasitic Gaps and the Heterogeneity of Dependency Formation in STAG

This paper presents an account of parasitic gaps in Synchronous TAG, making use of the more flexible semantic derivations that derive from the proposal in Frank and Storoshenko (2012) to add separate scope components to all predicates. We model parasitic gaps as deriving from a TAG analog of sidewards movement (Nunes, 2004), where the licensing wh-phrase combines first with the domain containin...

Deriving obligatory movement in apparent parasitic gaps in Japanese

To account for this contrast, Takahashi (2006) argues that the empty category inside the island is an elided position, which obtains its content by copying the real trace. When there is no whmovement, what is copied onto e is the wh-phrase itself, which does not lead to the intended bound reading. On the other hand, Abe (2011) argues that the empty categories in (1a) are real parasitic gaps, li...

Karimi , Simin ( 1999 a ) ' A Note on Parasitic Gaps

Minding the gaps: metabolomics mends functional genomics.

Many have come to regard metabolism as a well-understood housekeeping activity of all cells, functi onally compartmentalized away from other biological processes. However, growing reports of unexpected links between a diverse range of disease states and specific metabolic enzymes or pathways have begun to challenge this view. In doing so, such discoveries have exposed more glaring, and neglecte...