The Coordination of Unlike Categories

Bibliographic Data

ID2861887
AuthorsSamuel Bayer (0000-0002-5125-1788, corresponding author)
Year1996
Volume72
Issue3
Pages579
Publication date1996-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/416279
OpenAlexW2085246101
LanguageEN
Citations received28
References cited17

I argue that the account of the coordination of unlike categories, such as wealthy and a Republican in become wealthy and a Republican, ought to be unified with the account of feature neutralization under phonological identity, in which (for instance) coordinations of dative- and accusative-taking transitive verbs are possible just when the object is ambiguous (or underspecified) between dative and accusative case. I argue that this unified account ought not to be couched in terms of strings (as in Chametzky 1987) or features (as in Sag et al. 1985) but rather in terms of the logic of categories, in the tradition of Lambek Categorial Grammar. I present and defend such an account

Linguistics · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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