Interpretação para a subjacência de

English translation: rationale for establishing the (status of) Subjacency of

14:45 Feb 8, 2007
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Science - Linguistics / phonology
Portuguese term or phrase: Interpretação para a subjacência de
Interpretação para a subjacência de /NASAL-A/:

Nos dados acima pode-se observar que a realização do morfema co-referencial [, -] está condicionada ao segmento inicial da raiz lexical à qual o prefixo se apõe
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English translation:rationale for establishing the (status of) Subjacency of
Explanation:
The concept is predominant in Chomsky's Government and Binding theory and later became the basis for Government and Bounding. It's often written with an initial cap. If Subjacency is violated, an utterance is ungrammatical.

I think the phrase makes more sense if if you translate "interpretação" the way I have. Here are some examples:

As in the case of the ECP, the scope of wh-in-situ is crucial in **establishing the status of Subjacency at LF.** Quantifiers, ...
www.rci.rutgers.edu/~dayal/Chapter44.PDF

used to **establish the status of the ECP and Subjacency** as constraints on movement at LF. To see how multiple wh questions have shaped our view of LF ...
semanticsarchive.net/Archive/zgwYTExN/multiplewh.pdf

It appears that **when a structure acquires the status of obeying Subjacency**,. that status cannot be changed later in the derivation. ...
www2.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~nnsle01/Coll.pdf





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Muriel Vasconcellos
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Local time: 20:24
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I'm going with "Rationale for establishing the underlying status of X" - I dont think this has anything to do with G&B...
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interpretation for the subjacency of


Explanation:
The concept of 'subjacency' is standard jargon in linguistics.


    Reference: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/vivian.c/Linguistics/Linguistic...
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rationale for establishing the (status of) Subjacency of


Explanation:
The concept is predominant in Chomsky's Government and Binding theory and later became the basis for Government and Bounding. It's often written with an initial cap. If Subjacency is violated, an utterance is ungrammatical.

I think the phrase makes more sense if if you translate "interpretação" the way I have. Here are some examples:

As in the case of the ECP, the scope of wh-in-situ is crucial in **establishing the status of Subjacency at LF.** Quantifiers, ...
www.rci.rutgers.edu/~dayal/Chapter44.PDF

used to **establish the status of the ECP and Subjacency** as constraints on movement at LF. To see how multiple wh questions have shaped our view of LF ...
semanticsarchive.net/Archive/zgwYTExN/multiplewh.pdf

It appears that **when a structure acquires the status of obeying Subjacency**,. that status cannot be changed later in the derivation. ...
www2.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~nnsle01/Coll.pdf







Muriel Vasconcellos
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Local time: 20:24
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I'm going with "Rationale for establishing the underlying status of X" - I dont think this has anything to do with G&B...
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