Séminaire Linguistique
Informatique
1 Mars 2010
Jens Michaelis (Universität Bielefeld - Fakultät für
Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft).
TITRE:
A Mildly Context-Sensitive Treatment of Multiple-Wh
-Interrogatives
Stablerian Minimalist
Grammars (MGs) (Stabler 1997) are mildly context-
sensitive in the sense of Joshi (1985), because they impose a locality
condition
called shortest move condition (SMC). The SMC so construed faces the
obvious challenge of multiple-wh -questions. We will show how
introducing the
structure building operation cluster allows an SMC-compatible
MG-treatment
of this domain of syntax in different languages. Adopting the
MG-formalism,
this can consequently be taken as a motivation for applying the tool of
clustering to multiple-wh -interrogatives throughout, i.e.,
generalizing the
wh -cluster analysis of multiple-wh -questions proposed by Grewendorf
(2001)
and Sabel (2001) for particular languages like, e.g., Bulgarian, German
or
Japanese.