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Lovestrand, Joseph & Lowe, John J.: Minimal C-structure: Rethinking Projection in Phrase Structure

This paper addresses the formal properties of constituent structure (c-structure). We demonstrate inadequacies in the formalization of traditional X' theory by Bresnan (2001) and Bresnan et al. (2016), and in the alternative proposal of Marcotte (2014). We propose "minimal c-structure" as a new approach to phrase structure within Lexical-Functional Grammar, which almost entirely eliminates non-branching nodes, and neatly captures the distinction between projecting and non-projecting words. Our proposal is fully formalized, and has been successfully tested by an XLE implementation.


December 22, 2022
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