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Is there a name for transformations that manipulate constructions with semantically overlapping constituents? [closed]
Is there a name for transformations like the following where there is semantic overlap between the means, purpose, and action described by the construction?
Action/means:
Open the door by turning the ...
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grammar of the 'in the following'
Consider we have the sentence
My bird likes sunflower seeds. She eats a lot of seeds everyday.
Using pronoun resolution we can replace she with the actual subject 'My birds'; converting 'She eats a ...
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direct object and indirect object [closed]
Which is the direct object and which is the indirect object in the following sentence?
The school has given David's proposal serious consideration.
I think that "David's proposal" is the indirect ...
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Is there a name or formalism for transforming imperative commands to personalized phrases?
Sorry for the bad title description, but I find it difficult to summarize so here's a few examples:
"Tell my wife that I love her" -> [To wife] "I love you"
"Remind me tomorrow that I have a doctor's ...
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DS for a question starting with "Didn't"?
I am trying to draw a derivation for "Didn't the cat eat the mouse?" But I'm confused as to what the deep structure would be. "The cat did not eat the mouse" seems incorrect, since it is stating ...
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Is a sentence's deep structure representative of i-language?
That is to say, is the deep structure supposed to be what's happening in our head when we speak a language? Or is this just to make our model of a grammar consistent?
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Hypotheses for floating quantifier's positions in generative grammar
Regarding the floating quantifiers' theory on external argument's movement.
These data raises two different problems:
a) The dogs ALL should have been petted.
b) *The dogs should have been ALL ...
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Ontological status of syntactic transformations
Syntactic theories in the generative tradition involve transformations, i.e. movement of constituents, between deep structure and surface structure. What is actually meant by this? Is it intended as a ...
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