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Tim Osborne
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25 votes
6 answers
9k views

Why is constituency needed, since dependency gets the job done more easily and economically?

18 votes
5 answers
2k views

What empirical evidence can be produced that all syntactic structure is binary branching?

9 votes
2 answers
12k views

What is the scope of negation?

6 votes
1 answer
167 views

Is this a form of ellipsis: If (you are) hungry, you should say so?

5 votes
4 answers
2k views

How widespread are Reed-Kellogg sentence diagrams?

4 votes
3 answers
536 views

Does finite VP exist as a constituent?

4 votes
1 answer
603 views

Are individual words really constituents?

3 votes
1 answer
341 views

What is this trait of answer ellipsis?

3 votes
2 answers
94 views

What are the most authoratative references on the notion of shallow parsing?

3 votes
2 answers
283 views

What is the distribution of pronominal "one"?

3 votes
2 answers
521 views

Which dependency parsers take auxiliaries to to be heads over content verbs and prepositions to be heads over their complements?

3 votes
1 answer
142 views

Does simple type theory distinguish between those common nouns that are used as arguments and those that are used as predicates?

2 votes
2 answers
626 views

Is there an established distinction between semantic and syntactic predicates?

2 votes
1 answer
111 views

How can one best formalize dependency structures in terms of rules?

1 vote
2 answers
187 views

Is there an approach to quantification theory that construes quantifiers as subset creators?

1 vote
3 answers
159 views

Is type theory compatible with n-ary branching?

1 vote
1 answer
657 views

What is the scope of negation (again)?

1 vote
1 answer
85 views

Does a sentence with an adjunct entail the same sentence without the adjunct?

1 vote
0 answers
124 views

Does the morphological analysis of complex words acknowledge/allow multiple derivations?

0 votes
1 answer
59 views

What is the syntactic status of subordinate clauses such as "what can be..."?