Legitimate Termination of Nonlocal Features in HPSG
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This paper reviews the treatment of wh-question facts offered by Lappin and Johnson 1996, and suggests that their account of certain island phenomena should be adapted by assuming that certain phrase structures license binding of inherited features. In Japanese, Lappin and Johnson's INHERILQUE feature appears to be dependent on INHERIQUE in order to terminate with a functional C head's TO-BINDIQUE. For certain languages, C's TO-BINDILQUE feature must be null if TO-BINDIQUE is null. In the spirit of Sag 1996 and Pollard and Yoo 1996, the facts can be handled by saying that TO-BINDILQUE is licensed on a wh-clause (wh-cl). As a wh-cl requires TO-BINDIQUE, the dependence of the less robust INHERILQUE on INHERIQUE is thus explained.
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