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Illocution should not accept property complements (CP selection rules draft) #15

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solpahi opened this issue Aug 11, 2022 · 0 comments

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solpahi commented Aug 11, 2022

*hảo ja da

is currently accepted by zugaı.

Illocution should select for CPs as follows:

da: CP [+declarative]
ka: CP [+declarative]
ba: CP [+declarative]
moq: CP [+interrogative]

A CP is [+declarative] if its C is and if it contains no /hıa.

A CP is [+interrogative] if its C is or it contains /hıa

lả, are [+declarative] unless they head a CP containing /hıa

mả, , tỉo, tîo, are [+interrogative]

CPs containing ja can only be the argument of a verb.

Relative clauses must be declarative (, :t3:, without /hıa, and without ja)

lllocution should only accept Cs that carry :t4:, and the null C,
while verbs should only accept Cs that carry :t5:

These rules are probably incomplete. Where they seem too restrictive, I would suggest that we should err on the side of caution until we have solid syntax and semantics for the parts of the language that are uncontroversial.

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