Timeline for How would I parse the sentence, "I am not the alien here."?
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| S Jan 5, 2014 at 1:59 | history | suggested | Pete | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Put sentence in title of question so as to differentiate from similar questions about parsing a sentence.
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| Oct 7, 2013 at 21:02 | comment | added | mac389 | @PElliott updated as to your first comment. As to the second, I agree completely. What would a reasonably alternate set of rules be to give 'here' scope over both but not the negation? | |
| Oct 7, 2013 at 21:02 | history | edited | mac389 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 7, 2013 at 8:59 | comment | added | P Elliott | One consequence of the phrase structural rules you've given is that's impossible to have 'here' scoping over both the copular and the predicate without also scoping over the negation. You want the copular and the predicate to be a constituent to the exclusion of negation. | |
| Oct 7, 2013 at 8:54 | comment | added | P Elliott | Can you clarify whether you're looking for a phrase structure tree, or a representation in first-order logic? In terms of the former, i'd generally treat 'here' as a VP-level adjunct, scoping below negation, but above the predicate. Also, i don't think the phrase-structural rules you give are broadly correct, as they assign the copular sentence a ternery branching structure. There's evidence that the copular+pred behave as a constituent to exclusion of the subject. See, e.g. clefting options: It is I who is not the alien here. | |
| Oct 6, 2013 at 21:18 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackLinguist/status/386963686033981440 | ||
| Oct 6, 2013 at 21:01 | answer | added | Atamiri | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 6, 2013 at 19:42 | history | edited | Otavio Macedo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 6, 2013 at 17:31 | history | asked | mac389 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |