Universal 1200: dislocation of non-NPs ⇒ dislocation of NPs
- Original
- Dislocated phrase universal:
If a language allows phrases to occur in a dislocated position associated with a rule of variable binding, then at least NPs (i.e. the syntactic category corresponding to quantifiers over the domain of discourse) will occur in this position. - Standardized
- Dislocated phrase universal:
If a language allows phrases to occur in a dislocated position associated with a rule of variable binding, then at least NPs (i.e. the syntactic category corresponding to quantifiers over the domain of discourse) will occur in this position.That is:
IF non-NPs (e.g., APs, DPs or PPs) can occur in a dislocated position associated with a rule of variable binding, THEN NPs can also be dislocated. - Keywords
- quantification, dislocation, variable binding, NP
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- unspecified
- Source
- Barwise & Cooper 1981: 178, U2
- Counterexamples
Barwise & Cooper (1981: 178) note that they “would not expect to find a natural language in which adjectives or prepositional phrases, but NOT noun-phrases, occur in dislocated positions associated with variable binding. In particular we would not expect a language to allow dislocated determiners if it did not also allow dislocated NPs.”