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Proceedings of the 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics edited by John Alderete, Chung-hye Han, and Alexei Kochetov ISBN 1-57473-407-5 library binding vi + 405 pages publication date: 2005 published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA Table of contents Abstract Mark de Vos and Luis Vicente Coordination under Right Node Raising 97-104 (complete pdf) This paper provides a novel analysis for the distributive reading of coordinate structures under Right Node Raising (CoRNR). The authors show that the properties of this construction exclude a number of previous analyses based on movement, binding, or ellipsis. They propose to extend Citko's 2003 constituent sharing analysis of ATB questions, by claiming that CoRNR constructions feature a coordinate structure embedded inside a larger one. Such structures create a linearization problem that is resolved at PF by extraposing the lower coordinate structure. On top of accounting for the seemingly paradoxical properties of CoRNR sentences, this analysis can also be extended to regular RNR sentences and to coordinated wh-questions. |