On deletion phenomena in EnglishTo celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries. |
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affected term anaphors antecedent application of EQUI-NP ation chain of coreference Chaining Constraint Chomsky claim clause mate consider Controller Cross-Over Constraint controller/antecedent coreferential deletion transformation coreferential nodes deep structure deleting term deletion path deletion trans disturbed Pete dominated element embedded EQUI-NP DELETION transformation example Extended Standard Theory fact formulation free deletion transformations George Lakoff Global Derivational Constraint identity identity element ill-formed interpretation Intervention Constraint involved John Lakoff lexical item linguistic Mary mescaline natural language NP node NP NP NP VP null object argument optional lexicalization partition PASSIVE transformation Paul Postal position possible controller Postal predicate present pro-form projection rules proposed relative clause result Ross self-included structures semantic sentences sequences served as controller shaving someone Specifically strings structural index subject NP SUPER EQUI surface realization surface structure syntactic talked terminal elements terminal symbols transformational grammar tree structure underlying structure underlying subject ungrammatical versions VP Deletion well-formed