Coordinators and modification markers as categoryless functional elements
A coordinate construction is built by two basic levels of combination: a categoryless functional head is combined with a conjunct, and the result is combined with a categorizer, which is the other conjunct. The first combination is seen in all structures headed by a functional element, and the latt...
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A coordinate construction is built by two basic levels of combination: a categoryless functional head is combined with a conjunct, and the result is combined with a categorizer, which is the other conjunct. The first combination is seen in all structures headed by a functional element, and the latter is seen in the categorization of a root. The same two levels of combination are also seen in a modification construction. A categoryless functional head is realized by a coordinator or a modification marker. The positions of the low and high conjunct are also those of a modifier and the modified element, respectively. Thus, neither a coordinate construction nor a modification construction has a construction-specific structural representation or functional head. This means that no coordinate construction is built by any construction-specific operation and there is no stipulated Adjunction operation. The categoryless functional head can also be found in compounds, which can also be categoryless, like single roots
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| spelling | doaj-art-ff96e8a3a3cb4f5abdc6b2996425d72d2024-12-31T12:21:32ZengSeptentrio Academic PublishingNordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics1503-85992024-12-0148110.7557/12.7975Coordinators and modification markers as categoryless functional elementsNing Zhang0National Chung Cheng University A coordinate construction is built by two basic levels of combination: a categoryless functional head is combined with a conjunct, and the result is combined with a categorizer, which is the other conjunct. The first combination is seen in all structures headed by a functional element, and the latter is seen in the categorization of a root. The same two levels of combination are also seen in a modification construction. A categoryless functional head is realized by a coordinator or a modification marker. The positions of the low and high conjunct are also those of a modifier and the modified element, respectively. Thus, neither a coordinate construction nor a modification construction has a construction-specific structural representation or functional head. This means that no coordinate construction is built by any construction-specific operation and there is no stipulated Adjunction operation. The categoryless functional head can also be found in compounds, which can also be categoryless, like single roots https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/7975coordinationcategoryfunctional headconjunctionfunctional category |
| spellingShingle | Ning Zhang Coordinators and modification markers as categoryless functional elements Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics coordination category functional head conjunction functional category |
| title | Coordinators and modification markers as categoryless functional elements |
| title_full | Coordinators and modification markers as categoryless functional elements |
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| title_short | Coordinators and modification markers as categoryless functional elements |
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