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Linglib.Typology.Relativization.ExtractionBridge

Extraction Morphology ↔ Accessibility Hierarchy Bridge #

@cite{keenan-comrie-1977}

Maps between Typology.ExtractionTarget (5 structural positions from extraction morphology, defined in Typology/Extraction.lean) and Core.AHPosition (6 positions on the @cite{keenan-comrie-1977} Accessibility Hierarchy).

Both type systems encode overlapping Ā-movement phenomena: extraction focuses on where extraction occurs (used by Mayan, Austronesian, Celtic Fragments); the AH focuses on what can be relativized (used by relativization Fragments and the Keenan-Comrie hierarchy constraints). The bridge is partial: AHPosition.objComparison (object of comparison, specific to the relativization literature) has no standard ExtractionTarget equivalent. In the other direction, ExtractionTarget.possessor maps to AHPosition.genitive.

ExtractionTarget → AH → ExtractionTarget is the identity.

AH → ExtractionTarget → AH is the identity for every position except objComparison (which has no ExtractionTarget).

objComparison is the only AH position without an ExtractionTarget.

Every non-objComparison AH position has an ExtractionTarget equivalent.