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. Valence and Constituent Order
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V[ . ⟨⟩]
2 NP[acc] .
. V[ . ⟨ 1 ⟩]
1 NP[nom]
.
V[ .⟨ 1 , 2 ⟩]
.
das Buch .
.
jeder .
kennt .
Figure .: Analysis of das Buch jeder kennt (the book everybody knows)
for expressing constraints on pronoun binding. So the obliqueness ordering has to be
represented elsewhere in set-based approaches.
For authors who assume binary branching structures the difference between languages
with fixed constituent order and languages with free constituent order lies in
the value of 1 and 3 in Schema . If either 1 or 3 is the empty list one gets a fixed
constituent order, with head complement combination either in order of obliqueness or
in the reverse order of obliqueness.
To sum up, there are three approaches to free constituent order: Flat structures, linearization
domains with discontinuous constituents, and the non-cancellation of syntactic
and semantic properties of arguments.
.. Heads and Projection of Head Features
Section . introduced head features and Figure . shows that the information about part
of speech of the head is present at every projection, but until now nothing has been said
about head feature propagation. e identity of the head features of a head and of a
mother node is taken care of by the following principle:
Principle (Head Feature Principle) In a headed phrase, the value of the mother
and the value of the head daughter are identical.
is can be formalized by the following implicational constraint:
()
headed-phrase ⇒
[ ||| 1
|||| 1
]
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