On Monday 11 Apr 2005 16:11 pm, And Rosta wrote:
> Dylan:
> > On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 20:09 pm, And Rosta wrote:
> > > I'd be interested if you cared to elaborate on your views on this
> > > list. I have just finished a paper that -- albeit somewhat
> > > programmatically -- argues that all conjuncts are constituents
> > > (or the dependency equivalent); i.e. rejecting the "word-string"
> > > approach. So it's a topic I'm interested in.
> >
> > Any chance of reading that?
>
> Will send it you as attachment.
Thank you, I look forward to it.
>
> > Do you hold that the coordinator partakes in
> > the dependency relationships?
>
> Yes; it is the root of the phrase. E.g. in "see John and Mary", "and"
> is object
> of "see", and "John" and "mary" depend on "and".
I would follow you in that.
Dylan
>
> --And.
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