Anna Kupść, Małgorzata Marciniak, Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Adam Przepiórkowski

Constituent coordination in Polish. An attempt of an HPSG account.

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Abstract

This report is concerned with a preliminary description of constituent coordination in Polish couched within the framework of HPSG (Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar). The analysis presented in this paper is based on an HPSG approach to constituent coordination developed in Paritong (1992). Following Paritong (1992), we treat the conjunction as a functional head of a coordinated phrase. Such an approach allows us to apply general HPSG principles also to coordination. We account for coordination of homogeneous argument constituents but also for coordination of non-homogeneous modifiers. The same general mechanism is used to account for coordination of saturated and partial constituents as well as for multiple coordination. Finally, we provide a preliminary analysis of agreement patterns in various kinds of coordinated phrases.

Key words: formal grammars, HPSG, coordination.