More parsing
c stirling bartholomew
cc.constantine at worldnet.att.net
Sat Apr 20 23:57:48 EDT 2002
on 4/20/02 4:18 PM, Daniel Riaño wrote:
> But if you want to parse the immediate constituents
> of the syntagm, you face a few problems with this kind of
> construction.
Daniel,
OK, I printed and studied your diagrams. I am not a practitioner of IC
(Immediate Constituent Analysis) and that is probably the reason I don't
understand some aspects of your notation like switching the order of the
constituents in the leaves.
Anyway, here is my simple minded parsing of this text, using a different
notation:
TO EPIBLHMA TO APO TOU KAINOU
TO EPIBLHMA (TO APO TOU KAINOU)
TO (APO TOU KAINOU)*
APO (TOU KAINOU)
TOU (KAINOU)
*The only step in this analysis which I find interesting is the middle one:
TO (APO TOU KAINOU). The article TO serves here to mark the function of the
entire prepositional phrase. For my money this is the critical move in the
analysis. The rest of it falls out from this this move. This of course is
not they way things are done in IC.
> There are many traditional ways to parse the text, of course, and most of
> them just beg the question.
I suspect that is what I have done, beg the question.
Sorry I can't be more helpful.
greetings,
Clay
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Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
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