Diagnostics for Constituents: Dependency, Constituency, and the Status of Function Words
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This contribution delivers two messages: 1) that the tests for constituents that are widely employed in linguistics and syntax textbooks are more congruent with dependency-based syntax than with constituency-based syntax and 2) that these same tests support the conventional analysis of function words, that is, the analysis that takes most function words (auxiliary verbs, adpositions, subordinators) to be heads over the content words with which they cooccur. The latter issue is important at present, since a recent annotation scheme is choosing to subordinate all function words to the content words with which they coocur.
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