Inverse Linking in Minimalist Grammars
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The phenomenon of Inverse Linking has proven challenging for theories of the syntax-semantics interface; a noun phrase within another behaves with respect to binding as though it were structurally independent. In this paper I show that, even within an LF-movement style approach to the syntax-semantics interface, we can derive all and only the appropriate meanings for such constructions using no semantic operations other than function application and composition. The solution relies not on a proliferation of lexical ambiguity, but rather on a straightforward (and standard) reification of assignment functions, which allows us to define abstraction operators within our models.
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