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[xtag-meeting]: meeting this thursady, Apr 18
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Subject: [xtag-meeting]: meeting this thursady, Apr 18
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From: CARLOS A PROLO <prolo@linc.cis.upenn.edu>
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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:02:46 -0400 (EDT)
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Cc: creswell@babel.ling.upenn.edu
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Sender: owner-xtag@linc.cis.upenn.edu
We meet at the usual place (IRCS fishbowl), usual time (10:30 a.m.)
Cassie Creswell will be talking about resumptive pronouns and how to handle
them with TAGs. Her abstract follows.
Carlos
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Resumptive pronouns, wh-island violations,
and a TAG-based model of sentence production
In spontaneous speech, English speakers produce relative clauses whose
structures violate wh-island constraints but where resumptive pronouns
appear in place of the gap/trace normally found in a relative clause. It
is difficult to explain these island-violation remedying resumptive
pronouns in a model of sentence production where only grammatically-
licensed trees are available to the speaker's production
system. This paper argues that the only explanation for these
island-violating relative clauses in such a model of sentence production
is that they are fully grammatical constructions, whose marginal status
reflects non-syntactic factors.