Branan and Erlewine (2023): Anti-pied-piping #
A language marks a focus on some constituent, by a particle or by moving it, and that constituent need not be the focus. It may properly contain the focus, which is Ross's pied-piping, or be properly contained in it, which Branan and Erlewine call anti-pied-piping and document in over sixty languages. They conclude that a focus particle has no meaning of its own. It flags an unpronounced operator that takes the whole focus in its scope, and it is adjoined, when a phase is spelled out, to a phrase left-aligned with the focus once the phrases that bear no prominence are skipped. Focus movement moves the phrase so marked, so one rule governs both, and it does not tell pied-piping from anti-pied-piping.
Main statements #
quantifierOnly_ne_only: a particle that quantified over alternatives to its sister could not associate with a focus properly containing that sister, whatever alternatives it was given.LeftAlignedOn.symmGen_le,LeftmostRequirement.allows_comm: a phrase left-aligned with the focus contains it or is contained in it, and the rule that places the particle does not tell the two apart.LeftAlignedOn.symmGen_le_of_common: of two separate phrases at most one is left-aligned with a given focus, the leftmost effect.acceptable_iff_favors: an example is unmarked on a reading exactly when its language's variant of the rule favors the phrase it marks for the focus of that reading.
Implementation notes #
- A phase is a constituency tree over the categories of the functional sequence, in the order it is spelled out. Its spine is the path of categories extending to the category of the phase, and the prominent phrases, the paper's ●-marked ones, are the phrases off the spine that an example does not report as skipped.
- The examples name constituents (subject, predicate, the fronted phrase), and a frame finds each as the first node of its tree spelling a given string of words, so positions are read off bracketings and none is typed in. Clause frames are schematic, and the frames of the English, Latin and Russian examples carry their words.
- The judged readings are those the paper prints. Where it marks one string for two speakers' grammars, the weak variant stands for the language.
TODO #
- The timing of placement: particles adjoin before scrambling, so a host need not be leftmost on the surface, and adjuncts merged late cannot host a particle for a focus on the predicate.
- The ratings of object fronting across accented and unaccented subjects in German, and the survey of languages by genus in the appendix.
- Narrow focus on a lexical verb, for which no phrase is left-aligned (
sov_verb) and languages differ in what they do, and the obligatory anti-pied-piping of Miyara Yaeyaman, where the rule also allows the focused predicate itself to host the particle. - The realization of prominence as phrasal stress, and the paper's argument from Hausa that placement does not track stress itself.
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The particle is not a quantifier #
On the quantificational theory a particle meaning only composes with its sister α and
then with its scope β, presupposing β α and asserting that β is false of every other
alternative to α in C ((72)).
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- BrananErlewine2023.quantifierOnly C α β = (β α).indicator fun (w : W) => SignType.ofProp (∀ γ ∈ C, γ ≠ α → w ∉ β γ)
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The quantificational particle is the operator only of (73) restricted to the alternatives that differ from the prejacent in the particle's sister alone.
A particle on a proper part of its focus is not a quantifier over alternatives to its sister.
Where the scope holds of the sister and of nothing else, the quantifier is true whatever
alternatives it is given, though an alternative ψ to the whole focus is true as well, so that
the operator associating with that focus is false.
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- BrananErlewine2023.read b = {w : Set BrananErlewine2023.Deed | BrananErlewine2023.Deed.read b ∈ w}
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- BrananErlewine2023.swam = {w : Set BrananErlewine2023.Deed | BrananErlewine2023.Deed.swim ∈ w}
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Peter read Hamlet and swam. The particle on the object, read as a quantifier, is true, since he read nothing else; the reading on which he only read Hamlet, the operator's over the predicate's alternatives, is false ((79)–(81)).
Prominence #
When a phase is spelled out, every phrase outside the extended projection of the phase head bears abstract prominence, the paper's ●, unless it is indefinite, given or otherwise light ((115), (119)).
A position is on the spine of a phase when its category and that of every node above it extend to the category of the phase, so that it belongs to the extended projection containing the phase head.
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- BrananErlewine2023.OnSpine t p = ∀ l ∈ p.toList.inits, ∃ s ∈ RoseTree.subtreeAt t l, (PhraseStructure.Tree.cat s).ExtendsTo t.cat
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- BrananErlewine2023.instDecidableOnSpine t p = id inferInstance
The prominent phrases of a phase are the phrases off its spine other than the skipped
ones, listed in document order.
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Left-alignment relative to the prominent phrases #
leftmost m X is the first phrase of m that the constituent at X contains. With m in
document order it is the one that begins earliest, and the largest that does.
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- BrananErlewine2023.leftmost m X = List.find? (fun (x : Core.Order.TreePath) => decide (X ≤ x)) m
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Two constituents are left-aligned on m when the leftmost phrase of m in the one and
the leftmost in the other are left-aligned ((118)).
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- BrananErlewine2023.LeftAlignedOn m X Y = ∃ a ∈ BrananErlewine2023.leftmost m X, ∃ b ∈ BrananErlewine2023.leftmost m Y, a.LeftAligned b
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- BrananErlewine2023.instDecidableLeftAlignedOn = id inferInstance
Of two left-aligned constituents one contains the other.
Two constituents left-aligned with a third overlap, so of two separate phrases at most one is left-aligned with a given focus, which is the leftmost effect.
A constituent is left-aligned with itself as soon as it contains a prominent phrase.
A constituent containing no prominent phrase, as a lexical verb does not, is left-aligned with nothing (n. 45).
Particle placement #
When a phase is spelled out, a particle adjoins to a phrase left-aligned with the focus, preferably to such a phrase, or to any phrase overlapping the focus, in the strong, the weak and the free variant of the rule ((117)).
- strong : LeftmostRequirement
- weak : LeftmostRequirement
- free : LeftmostRequirement
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- BrananErlewine2023.instDecidableEqLeftmostRequirement x✝ y✝ = if h : x✝.ctorIdx = y✝.ctorIdx then isTrue ⋯ else isFalse ⋯
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The phrases a variant lets host the particle for a focus.
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- BrananErlewine2023.LeftmostRequirement.strong.Allows x✝² x✝¹ x✝ = BrananErlewine2023.LeftAlignedOn x✝² x✝¹ x✝
- BrananErlewine2023.LeftmostRequirement.weak.Allows x✝² x✝¹ x✝ = Relation.SymmGen (fun (x1 x2 : Core.Order.TreePath) => x1 ≤ x2) x✝¹ x✝
- BrananErlewine2023.LeftmostRequirement.free.Allows x✝² x✝¹ x✝ = Relation.SymmGen (fun (x1 x2 : Core.Order.TreePath) => x1 ≤ x2) x✝¹ x✝
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The phrases a variant lets host the particle at no cost.
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- BrananErlewine2023.LeftmostRequirement.strong.Favors x✝² x✝¹ x✝ = BrananErlewine2023.LeftAlignedOn x✝² x✝¹ x✝
- BrananErlewine2023.LeftmostRequirement.weak.Favors x✝² x✝¹ x✝ = BrananErlewine2023.LeftAlignedOn x✝² x✝¹ x✝
- BrananErlewine2023.LeftmostRequirement.free.Favors x✝² x✝¹ x✝ = Relation.SymmGen (fun (x1 x2 : Core.Order.TreePath) => x1 ≤ x2) x✝¹ x✝
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A phrase that may host the particle overlaps the focus.
The rule does not tell pied-piping from anti-pied-piping, since a phrase may host the particle for a focus exactly when the focus, as a phrase, might host it for a focus on that phrase (§6.4).
Every overt reflex of a focus sits on the phrase hosting its particle, where the particle is pronounced and from where the phrase moves. The reflexes of an allowed placement therefore target the focus exactly, pied-pipe or anti-pied-pipe, and none is hosted outside the focus.
Phases and their constituents #
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- BrananErlewine2023.instDecidableEqPart x✝ y✝ = if h : x✝.ctorIdx = y✝.ctorIdx then isTrue ⋯ else isFalse ⋯
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- BrananErlewine2023.instReprPart = { reprPrec := BrananErlewine2023.instReprPart.repr }
A phase as it is spelled out, with the words of the constituents the examples name.
- phase : PhraseStructure.Tree Minimalist.Cat String
The phase, in the order in which it is linearized.
- brackets : List (Part × List String)
The words each named constituent spells.
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The position of a named constituent, the first node spelling its words.
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A variant of the rule lets the constituent host of a frame host the particle for a focus
on focus, the constituents of skipped bearing no prominence.
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- fr.instDecidableAllows r host focus skipped = id inferInstance
A phrase over one word.
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A verb-final transitive clause, [S [O V]].
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A verb-medial transitive clause, [S [V O]].
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A verb-initial transitive clause, [V S O].
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An intransitive clause, [S [V]].
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A verb-final ditransitive clause with the theme before the goal.
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A verb-final ditransitive clause with the goal before the theme.
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A verb-medial ditransitive clause with the goal before the theme.
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A clause whose object holds an attributive adjective, [S [V [D [A N]]]].
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you frame [whose picture] ((122a)).
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you frame [a picture of whom] ((122b)).
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you see [[[whose brother]'s friend]'s father].
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you see [the father of [[whose brother]'s friend]].
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you speak [to [[which student]'s friend]].
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Latin [ob [eās rēs]] 'because of these things'. The source prints the phrase alone, so it is the root here and bears no prominence whether or not its preposition is light.
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Russian on ženilsja [na sestre [druga [č’ej materi]]].
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the government prescribes [the height of the lettering on the covers of which].
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The leftmost effect in a clause #
Under the strong variant a verb-final clause marks a focus on the sentence at its subject and a focus on the predicate at its object, and neither at the other, the pattern of Miyara Yaeyaman du and Ishkashimi məs ((64)).
The object of a verb-medial predicate counts as its leftmost phrase, the verb being on the spine (n. 17).
A subject that bears no prominence is skipped, so a focus on the sentence is marked at the object and the subject cannot host the particle (§6.1).
No phrase is left-aligned with a narrowly focused verb (n. 45).
A preposition stands between the edge of to which student's friend and its question word, and the phrase is left-aligned with the question word only because the phrase a light preposition heads is skipped ((123)).
The phrases fronted in a Russian question and an English relative clause are ones the strong variant excludes ((125), (126)).
The examples #
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- BrananErlewine2023.instDecidableEqMismatch x✝ y✝ = if h : x✝.ctorIdx = y✝.ctorIdx then isTrue ⋯ else isFalse ⋯
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- BrananErlewine2023.instReprMismatch = { reprPrec := BrananErlewine2023.instReprMismatch.repr }
A focus is marked by a particle on a phrase or by movement of the phrase.
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- BrananErlewine2023.instDecidableEqProcess x✝ y✝ = if h : x✝.ctorIdx = y✝.ctorIdx then isTrue ⋯ else isFalse ⋯
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- BrananErlewine2023.instReprProcess = { reprPrec := BrananErlewine2023.instReprProcess.repr }
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The relation of host to focus that a label names.
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- BrananErlewine2023.Mismatch.none.Holds x✝¹ x✝ = (x✝¹ = x✝)
- BrananErlewine2023.Mismatch.piedPiping.Holds x✝¹ x✝ = (x✝¹ < x✝)
- BrananErlewine2023.Mismatch.antiPiedPiping.Holds x✝¹ x✝ = (x✝ < x✝¹)
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The phase of each example, by the paper's number.
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- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(2)" = some BrananErlewine2023.sov
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(4)" = some BrananErlewine2023.sov
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(17b)" = some BrananErlewine2023.sov
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(18b)" = some BrananErlewine2023.sov
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(21)" = some BrananErlewine2023.sov
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(30a)" = some BrananErlewine2023.sov
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(30b)" = some BrananErlewine2023.sov
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(38)" = some BrananErlewine2023.sov
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(66a)" = some BrananErlewine2023.sov
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(66b)" = some BrananErlewine2023.sov
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(111a)" = some BrananErlewine2023.sov
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(111b)" = some BrananErlewine2023.sov
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(7)" = some BrananErlewine2023.svo
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(109a)" = some BrananErlewine2023.svo
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(109b)" = some BrananErlewine2023.svo
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(114a)" = some BrananErlewine2023.svo
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(114b)" = some BrananErlewine2023.svo
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(8)" = some BrananErlewine2023.sv
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(70a)" = some BrananErlewine2023.vso
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(70b)" = some BrananErlewine2023.vso
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(68a)" = some BrananErlewine2023.themeGoalV
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(68b)" = some BrananErlewine2023.themeGoalV
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(65)" = some BrananErlewine2023.goalThemeV
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(67)" = some BrananErlewine2023.goalThemeV
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(1)" = some BrananErlewine2023.vGoalTheme
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(69a)" = some BrananErlewine2023.vGoalTheme
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(69b)" = some BrananErlewine2023.vGoalTheme
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(3)" = some BrananErlewine2023.adjectiveObject
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(120a)" = some BrananErlewine2023.whosePicture
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(120b)" = some BrananErlewine2023.pictureOfWhom
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(121a)" = some BrananErlewine2023.whoseBrothersFriendsFather
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(121b)" = some BrananErlewine2023.fatherOfWhoseBrothersFriend
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(123)" = some BrananErlewine2023.toWhichStudentsFriend
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(124)" = some BrananErlewine2023.obEasRes
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(125)" = some BrananErlewine2023.naSestreDrugaCejMateri
- BrananErlewine2023.frame "(126)" = some BrananErlewine2023.heightOfTheLettering
- BrananErlewine2023.frame x✝ = none
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The examples name constituents by these labels.
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A row records of an example how it marks focus, the prominent phrases of its phase, the phrase that hosts the particle or moves, the focus of each reading with its judgment, the variant of the rule the paper reports for the construction, and the mismatch the paper labels it with.
- process : Process
- prominent : List Core.Order.TreePath
- host : Core.Order.TreePath
- readings : List (Core.Order.TreePath × Judgment)
- requirement : Option LeftmostRequirement
- mismatch : Option Mismatch
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The row of an example.
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The examples.
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Every example has its row.
An example is unmarked on a reading exactly when the variant of the rule that the paper reports for its construction favors the phrase it marks for the focus of that reading.
A reading the paper marks as dispreferred marks its focus at a phrase the variant allows.
A starred reading marks its focus at a phrase the variant does not allow.