LIN 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Complementizer, Indirect Speech, Subject Pronoun
2 Mar 2020
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Coordinators in spoken language are often marked overtly: ex. the and in i like linguistics, movies, and coffee (only marked on last item, some other languages have an overt coordinator on every item (e. g. , Sign languages also have overt coordinators (and, or, but in asl and rsl) However, coordinators do not always have to be expressed overtly, can be null: phonologically null coordinators is sometimes called juxtaposition, in cases of juxtaposition, context can disambiguate conjunction/disjunction. But you can also use overt signs like either or both. Importantly, either and both are not coordinators: nmms can also help disambiguate according to davidson (2013) Neutral eyebrows + head nod = conjunction. Similar extra-linguistic/gestural cues in spoken languages: verification of syntactic coordination in sign (even without overt marking) Across-the-board (atb) extraction only possible with coordination. You can take out object from both clauses and move it to front (hksl) Can"t do this unless the extracted word has the same role in both clauses.
