Different and proud of it: a TAG perspective on the coordination of unlike categories

Krivochen, D. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6145-1057 (2025) Different and proud of it: a TAG perspective on the coordination of unlike categories. Studia Linguistica. ISSN 1467-9582 doi: 10.1111/stul.70003

Abstract/Summary

This paper presents an analysis of sentences featuring superficial coordinations of unlike categories in English, such as John is a Republican and proud of it (NP and AP) and Pat is stupid and a liar (AP and NP). We argue that, despite the fact that examples like these have been grouped in the literature on coordination of unlikes, there are significant syntactic differences that justify distinguishing between them representationally and derivationally. We propose two categories of coordination of unlikes: anaphoric and intersective coordinations. In particular, we will focus on how to formulate a structural description that gets the right reference for it in a Republican and proud of it, a point unexplored in existing proposals.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/124486
Identification Number/DOI	10.1111/stul.70003
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Psychology Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Clinical Language Sciences
Publisher	Wiley
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