tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275657281509261156.post5276127910714855359..comments2024-03-28T04:04:55.806-07:00Comments on Faculty of Language: Derivation Trees and Phrase StructureNorberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15701059232144474269noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275657281509261156.post-3637138217584292242019-07-31T05:00:00.772-07:002019-07-31T05:00:00.772-07:00If you are looking for more information about flat...If you are looking for more information about flat rate locksmith Las Vegas check that right away. <a href="https://www.joelsprotreeservice.com/beavercreek-tree-services" rel="nofollow">Joel's Pro Tree Service of Beavercreek</a><br />Richard H. Blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14598058396076026111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275657281509261156.post-57738858425787243422019-07-13T12:42:00.623-07:002019-07-13T12:42:00.623-07:00Pretty good post. I just stumbled upon your blog a...Pretty good post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed reading your blog posts. Any way I'll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you post again soon. Big thanks for the useful info. <a href="https://www.joelsprotreeservice.com/sitemap.xml" rel="nofollow">Joel's Pro Tree Service</a><br />Haleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11549560110382429574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275657281509261156.post-10576754005293826582016-11-21T08:41:11.091-08:002016-11-21T08:41:11.091-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Jessy Ryderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15644737028828383577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275657281509261156.post-72773282073994092432016-09-24T03:21:15.713-07:002016-09-24T03:21:15.713-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01527778805908737805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275657281509261156.post-72110416612115758022015-01-17T03:43:18.763-08:002015-01-17T03:43:18.763-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03183255553251603022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275657281509261156.post-19800430822337289702014-02-23T00:51:42.297-08:002014-02-23T00:51:42.297-08:00A lot of this discussion of derivation trees and p...A lot of this discussion of derivation trees and phrase structure trees, and Rob Chametzky's (2011) paper on C-command discussing the derivational view versus the representational view remind me of an old Feynman lecture on the relationship between maths and physics, especially the bits on how there are multiple ways of looking at/thinking about the same facts in physics.<br /><br />Since a lot of us here have physics envy, I thought I would post the video link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd0xTfdt6qw).<br /><br />Apologies if this is not terribly germane to the posts and is bordering on blog spam.karthik durvasulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14541529987768107005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275657281509261156.post-51679809744745944012014-02-22T14:02:55.278-08:002014-02-22T14:02:55.278-08:00For anyone who's interested, a manuscript vers...For anyone who's interested, a manuscript version of Chametzky (2011) is <a href="http://thomasgraf.net/doc/other/Chametzky.pdf" rel="nofollow">now available for download</a>.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07629445838597321588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275657281509261156.post-77066153343060444232014-02-17T16:01:38.037-08:002014-02-17T16:01:38.037-08:00there is a Better Way to understand C-command
I li...<i>there is a Better Way to understand C-command</i><br />I like this definition, and it seems to generalize straightforwardly to multi-dominance trees if one stipulates that no node can c-command a node it reflexively dominates. So at this point it is mostly a matter of taste whether one prefers dominance + sisterhood or derivational dominance between occurrences. Both seem fairly natural, but they do slightly different things.<br /><br /><i>I'd link to some version of it, but I don't know how to.</i><br />If the file is available online, then you can link to it using standard html markup. I would include the code here, but blogger automatically converts it into a link, and neither the "code" nor the "pre" tags work. If you can't get it to work, you can email me the URL and I'll add a link.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07629445838597321588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275657281509261156.post-8889527092918564102014-02-17T10:37:50.580-08:002014-02-17T10:37:50.580-08:00@T.G. (couldn't resist those initials)
This i...@T.G. (couldn't resist those initials)<br /><br />This is a bit off the main point, and stop me if you've heard this, but there is a Better Way to understand C-command than this (quoted from above):<br /><br />"The standard definition is a little on the sloppy side, here's a cleaned up version:<br /><br />c-command. For every tree t and nodes m and n of t, m c-commands n iff 1) m does not reflexively dominate n, and 2) every node properly dominating m properly dominates n.<br /><br />As you can see it is a very specific relation, too specific if you are a Minimalist."<br /><br />Richardson & Chametzky (1985) is the urquelle of How to Think Right about C-command. Chametzky (1996, 2000, 2011) keeps trying to explain it. The basic<br />point is this. Don't ask "Does (node) X C-command (node) Y?"; ask rather "What<br />are the C-commanding nodes of node X?" That is, take the point of view of the commandee, not the commander. Then, the set of C-commanding nodes for X is the set of all nodes that are sisters of nodes that dominate X (dominance reflexive). C-command is, as I've think I've mentioned before, a generalization of the sister relation. It has, notice, no specifically linguistic content. <br /><br />As for Epstein's "derivational C-command"<br /><br />"Epstein (1999) tried to reduce c-command to Merge,2 but if I remember correctly his definition ran into some problems with how it applied to terms, e.g. X c-commanding itself after it undergoes remerge." <br /><br />I've castigated this in Chametzky (2011) (that's my chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Minimalism). I'd link to some version of it, but I don't know how to. I do have a scan of the chapter that I could email to whomever. For those interested, the place to start is on p.317, Section 14.2.<br /><br />--RCRob Chametzkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04943531685307739334noreply@blogger.com