Feature Percolation

Within unilevel theories of grammar like Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, there has been considerable attention paid to the development of a coherent theory of Feature Percolation. Within Government and Binding Theory, however, this matter has received less attention. In this paper, we argue th...

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Published in:Journal of East Asian linguistics 1993-01, Vol.2 (1), p.91-118
Main Authors: Cole, Peter, Hermon, Gabriella, Sung, Li-May
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anaphora
Grammatical clauses
Head movement
Honorifics
Long distance telephone services
Mothers
Parts of speech
Pronouns
Syntactical antecedents
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Summary:Within unilevel theories of grammar like Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, there has been considerable attention paid to the development of a coherent theory of Feature Percolation. Within Government and Binding Theory, however, this matter has received less attention. In this paper, we argue that the incorporation within GBT of a simple set of principles governing Feature Percolation provides a general treatment of diverse phenomena. We concentrate on how a theory of Feature Percolation can simplify various aspects of the description of long distance reflexives in Chinese, Korean and other languages.
ISSN:0925-8558
1572-8560
DOI:10.1007/BF01440584