Coordination and the Syntax-Discourse Interface

By: Daniel Altshuler, Robert Truswell

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Paperback | 9 September 2022

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This survey explores interactions between syntax and discourse, through a case study of patterns of extraction from coordinate structures. The theoretical breadth of the volume makes it the most complete account of extraction from coordinate structures to date: at first glance, it appears to be a syntactic matter, but the survey raises theoretical and empirical questions not just for syntax, but also across semantics, pragmatics, and discourse structure. Rather than promoting a single analysis, Daniel Altshuler and Robert Truswell outline reasonable hypotheses that allow theoretical conclusions to be deducted from empirical facts. The theoretical conclusions show that coordinate structures have the potential to discriminate between current syntactic theories, and to inform work on the interfaces between syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse. In many cases, however, the necessary empirical work has not yet been carried out, and too much of the literature revolves around the
same handful of primarily English examples. The volume offers a starting point for further research on extraction from coordinate structures, particularly in understudied languages, and provides a guide to how to tease out the theoretical implications of empirical findings.

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The volume aims to fruitfully reconcile two fundamentally different approaches to extraction from coordinate structures in the research literature, the 'syntax calls the shots' approach has attempted to 'reduce patterns of extraction from coordinate structures to principled statements about constraints on unbounded dependencies in syntax', whereas the 'discourse calls the shots' has relied on 'asyntactic statements about the interpretation of unbounded dependency constructions in specific discourse contexts'. * Victoria Fendel, LINGUIST-List *

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