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| Selected response from: Muriel Vasconcellos United States Local time: 20:24 | ||||||
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4 +1 | interpretation for the subjacency of |
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4 | rationale for establishing the (status of) Subjacency of |
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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 |
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