Romance Complex Predicates : In defence of theright - branching
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Abeill e and Godard (1994) seek to show that the rightward branching analysis of French tense auxiliaries shown in (1b), that I argued for in Manning (1992) and which is widely adopted in general, is wrong, and that rather we should adopt a at analysis for this construction as shown in (1c), and they show how such an analysis can be realized within HPSG (Pollard and Sag 1994). (1) a. Je I vous you.dat ai have apport e brought des bonbons candy`I have brought you sweets.' b.
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Romance Complex Predicates: In defence of the right-branching structure
Abeillé and Godard (1994) seek to show that the rightward branching analysis of French tense auxiliaries shown in (1b), that I argued for in Manning (1992) and which is widely adopted in general, is wrong, and that rather we should adopt a flat analysis for this construction as shown in (1c), and they show how such an analysis can be realized within HPSG (Pollard and Sag 1994). (1) a. Je I vous...
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