The syntax of correlative adverbs
The syntax of correlative adverbs
The syntax of correlative adverbs
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J.B. Johannessen / Lingua 115 (2005) 419–443 423<br />
However, this leaves us with the problem <strong>of</strong> what we should do about the selectional<br />
requirement—the correlation between the <strong>correlative</strong> and its conjunction—noted above. I<br />
shall postpone the discussion <strong>of</strong> this until Section 6.<br />
4. With sentential coordination, the <strong>correlative</strong> can be part <strong>of</strong> the first<br />
conjunct only<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>correlative</strong> cannot only be displaced from its conjunction phrase, but it can also<br />
occur inside one <strong>of</strong> the conjuncts, as in the English and Norwegian examples below:<br />
(12) [ ConjP [Mary either is driving to the airport] or [she is taking a cab]].<br />
(Larson, 1985: 235)<br />
(13) Yet [ ConjP [our invitation was either a complete hoax [...]] or [else we had good<br />
reason to think that important issues might hang upon our journey]].<br />
(Hendriks, 2002)<br />
(14) Dermed ble det til [ ConjP [at vi enten måtte kjøpe avisen],<br />
thus became it to that we either had-to buy the-newspaper,<br />
eller [at den trolig ville dø]]<br />
or that it possibly would die