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Linglib.Syntax.Minimalist.Phi.PersonSpace

The person space and function-valued person features #

This file defines the person space of Ackema and Neeleman: a nested chain of sets of atoms Sᵢ ⊆ Sᵢ₊ᵤ ⊆ Sᵢ₊ᵤ₊ₒ in which the speaker is an obligatory member of the innermost set and an addressee of the middle one, together with two privative person features interpreted as partial functions on it — PROX discards the outermost layer of a layered set and DIST selects it — and the feature structures built by applying them in sequence to the whole space. Third person selects the others layer, second person the addressee layer, first person the innermost set, and the inclusive the middle set; neither feature applies to a layer or to the innermost set, which bounds the inventory. Plural is defined only on an output of the person system with more than one member.

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structure Minimalist.Phi.PersonSpace (α : Type u_1) :
Type u_1

The person space: nested sets of atoms with the speaker an obligatory member of Sᵢ and an addressee of Sᵢ₊ᵤ; the remaining members are associates and others.

  • speaker : α

    The speaker i.

  • addressee : α

    The addressee u.

  • Si : Set α

    Sᵢ: the speaker and any associates or co-speakers.

  • Siu : Set α

    Sᵢ₊ᵤ: additionally an addressee and any associates or co-addressees.

  • Siuo : Set α

    Sᵢ₊ᵤ₊ₒ: additionally the others.

  • speaker_mem : self.speaker self.Si
  • addressee_mem : self.addressee self.Siu
  • addressee_notMem : self.addresseeself.Si
  • Si_subset : self.Siself.Siu
  • Siu_subset : self.Siuself.Siuo
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    The regions a feature structure can select: the three nested sets and the two layers between them.

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        The predecessor of a layered set: Pred Sᵢ₊ᵤ = Sᵢ, Pred Sᵢ₊ᵤ₊ₒ = Sᵢ₊ᵤ.

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          The two privative person features.

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              A person feature structure: the features in order of application.

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                Apply the features in order to Sᵢ₊ᵤ₊ₒ; none when a feature meets an unlayered set.

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                  theorem Minimalist.Phi.PersonSpace.Spec.eval_mem (fs : Spec) :
                  fs.eval = none fs.eval = some Region.siuo fs.eval = some Region.si fs.eval = some Region.siu fs.eval = some Region.addressees fs.eval = some Region.others

                  Every feature structure is incoherent or selects one of the five regions.

                  theorem Minimalist.Phi.PersonSpace.denote_nonempty {α : Type u_1} (S : PersonSpace α) {r : Region} (h : r Region.others) :
                  (S.denote r).Nonempty

                  Every region but the others layer contains the speaker or the addressee.

                  theorem Minimalist.Phi.PersonSpace.exists_denote_others_eq_empty {α : Type u_1} {a b : α} (hab : a b) :
                  ∃ (S : PersonSpace α), S.denote Region.others =

                  The others layer can be empty.

                  Sᵢ₊ᵤ has two obligatory members, the speaker and an addressee.

                  The whole space has two obligatory members.

                  Plural is defined on an output of the person system with more than one member, and not on the whole space.

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