Pied-Piping in Relative Clauses: Syntax and Compositional Semantics using Synchronous Tree Adjoining Grammar
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Abstract. In relative clauses, the wh relative pronoun can be embedded in a larger phrase, as in “a boy [whose brother] Mary hit” and “a boy [whose brother’s friend] Mary hit”. In such examples, we say that the larger phrase containing the wh-word has pied-piped along with the wh-word. In this paper, using a similar syntactic analysis for wh pied-piping as in Han (2002) and further developed in Kallmeyer and Scheffler (2004), I propose a compositional semantics for relative clauses of the sort illustrated above using Synchronous Tree Adjoining Grammar, a pairing of Tree Adjoining Grammars. It will be shown that (i) the elementary tree representing the logical form of a wh relative pronoun provides a generalized quantifier, and (ii) the semantic composition of the pied-piped material and the wh-word is achieved through adjoining the elementary tree representing the logical form of the pied-piped material to the elementary tree representing the logical form of the wh-word in the semantics.
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Pied-Piping in Relative Clauses: Syntax and Compositional Semantics Based on Synchronous Tree Adjoining Grammar
In relative clauses, the wh relative pronoun can be embedded in a larger phrase, as in a boy [whose brother] Mary hit. In such examples, we say that the larger phrase has pied-piped along with the whword. In this paper, using a similar syntactic analysis for wh pied-piping as in Han (2002) and further developed in Kallmeyer and Scheffler (2004), I propose a compositional semantics for relative ...
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