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- Start simple
- [
Every man
walks.]
- [
[Every man]
[
x walks.]]
- [
Every
[x man]
[
x walks.]]
-
- Two NPs
- [
[Every man]
loves [some woman]
]
- [
[Every man]
[
x loves [some woman]
.]]
- [
Every
[x man]
[
x loves some woman
.]]
- [
[some woman
] [
Every
[x man]
[
x loves y.]]]
- [
some
[y woman]
[
Every
[x man]
[
x loves y.]]]
-
- Two NPs another way
- [
[Every man]
loves [some woman]
]
- [
[Some woman]
[
[every man]
loves y.]]
- [
Some
[y woman]
[
[every man]
loves y.]]
- [
[every man
] [
some
[y woman]
[
x loves y.]]]
- [
every
[x man]
[
some
[y woman]
[
x loves y.]]]
-
- So now this IS a syntactic ambiguity
- A new architecture for grammar
- Classical aspects model (c. 1965)
- T-model (c. 1976)
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Jean Mark Gawron
2009-02-16