Distinguishing Phenogrammar from Tectogrammar Simplifies the Analysis of Interrogatives
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چکیده
Oehrle (1994) introduced a categorial grammar architecture in which word order is represented using the terms of a typed λ-calculus and the syntactic type system is based on linear logic. In this paper, we use a variant of this architecture, similar to λ-grammar (Muskens 2003, 2007b), to analyze interrogatives in English and Chinese. We show that separating word order (phenogrammar) and syntactic combinatorics (tectogrammar) in this way brings out the underlying similarities between different question-forming strategies, with phenogrammar identified as the locus of cross-linguistic variation. In particular, the difference between wh extraction (overt movement) and wh in situ (covert movement) turns out to be purely phenogrammatical.
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