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Tue May 3 10:41:24 EDT 2011


you would an arthrous adjective or noun in the same slot. How to parse the
elements of the prepositional phrase itself?  Why bother? It performs as a
unit adjectivally, the parsing of the leaves of the tree does not seem to
fulfil any useful purpose once the function of the unit is identified. Some
hard core generative types might take issue with this statement. The
constituent THN EK NEKRWN in ACTS 4:1-2, limits THN ANASTASIN. Same
situation, same comments.

The constituent hH DI' AUTOU in ACTS 3:16 limits hH PISTIS. Formally this
looks like the other two examples, but there are some intriguing semantic
ambiguities in here that are lacking in the other two examples.  Determinin=
g
just exactly what DI' AUTOU means in this context isn't trivial. However,
not sure this will impact the parsing problem any since I would assume that
you are parsing syntax functions and not semantic ones. However, as anyone
who has been through the generative school of thought knows, keeping the
syntax functions and semantic ones separate is easy to say but difficult to
implement.=20

I guess that from my eclectic functional point of view, the construction:
article -> prep (additive, substantive, pronoun) does not really present on=
e
with any new problems in terms of parsing trees.

What aspect of your question have I overlooked. I have the distinct feeling
that I missed the point of your inquiry.

Greetings,

Clay

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Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
Three Tree Point
P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062





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