Timeline for How would I parse the sentence, "I am not the alien here."?
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| Mar 2, 2015 at 0:22 | vote | accept | mac389 | ||
| Jan 5, 2014 at 20:17 | comment | added | mac389 | Why couldn't you say "Here, dog is sleeping."? It sounds quaint, but not far off from "Here there be dragons." | |
| Jan 4, 2014 at 22:23 | comment | added | P Elliott | I wouldn't analyse here as a determiner, no, i'd have it as an adverb. It doesn't have the distribution of a determiner, e.g. you can't say here dog is sleeping. As for my second claim, i could find a direct quotation, but the point is very simple: If you have an XP node, it must dominate both an X' AND an X node. In other words, every phrase must have a head. | |
| Jan 4, 2014 at 21:22 | comment | added | Muffin | Would you have DP-D'-D-here? | |
| Jan 4, 2014 at 21:15 | comment | added | Muffin | What kind of node would u have then for 'here'? | |
| Jan 4, 2014 at 21:09 | comment | added | Muffin | "I am trying to construct a first-order logic representation of the following sentence", then rewrite rules for a phrase structure tree follow. To me the question seemed to be "I am stuck on how to parse the word "here"" - from a syntactic perspective. Could you give me a quotation for your second claim? You are certainly right about the first one, I had changed the tree on the go without noticing: The D dominating AdvP shouldn't be there. | |
| Jan 4, 2014 at 20:45 | comment | added | P Elliott | The questioner states clearly: "I am trying to construct a first-order logic representation of the following sentence", not a phrase structure tree. Additionally, there're a couple of things i find odd about this tree. You have a head D directly dominating a phrasal node AdvP which is counter to standard X'-theory. Also, AdvP isn't headed - again, counter to standard X'-theory. | |
| Jan 4, 2014 at 20:45 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Jan 4, 2014 at 20:36 | history | edited | Muffin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 4, 2014 at 20:29 | history | answered | Muffin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |