The Dependency Structure of Coordinate Phrases: A Corpus Approach |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">David?TemperleyEmail author |
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Institution: | (1) Eastman School of Music, 26 Gibbs St., Rochester, NY 14604, USA |
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Abstract: | Hudson (1990) proposes that each conjunct in a coordinate phrase forms dependency relations with heads or dependents outside
the coordinate phrase (the “multi-head” view). This proposal is tested through corpus analysis of Wall Street Journal text.
For right-branching constituents (such as direct-object NPs), a short-long preference for conjunct ordering is observed; this
is predicted by the multi-head view, under the assumption that structures resulting in shorter dependencies are preferred.
A short-long preference is also observed for left-branching constituents (such as subject NPs), which is less obviously accommodated
by the multi-head view but not incompatible with it. The repetition of determiners was also examined (the dog and cat versus
the dog and the cat), and a stronger preference was found for repetition with singular count nouns as opposed to mass or plural
nouns; this accords well with the multi-head view, under the reasoning that single-determiner constructions require crossing
dependencies with count nouns but not with plural or mass nouns. |
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Keywords: | coordination corpus analysis dependency grammar syntactic complexity |
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