From: "C. Stirling Bartholomew" <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Pronoun )nky in Judg. 6:8
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:07:13 -0700
On 10/8/04 10:02 AM, "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net> wrote:
> Thus, I tend to reject
> everything he came up with from the development of trace theory down to the
> present time.
Dave,
Do you you employ the notion of empty constituents? For example if a )$r is
functioning as a relative clause marker but there is no explicit antecedent
do you supply a null place holder to mark the position of the "missing"
antecedent and then proceed with your syntax analysis as if this empty
constituent was a real constituent?
I can see some merit in this approach but also one major liability.
Proceeding as if this empty constituent was a real constituent shuts down
the analysis of the actual text before you supplanting it with a virtual
text. Assuming that the actual text is syntactically well formed, it
behooves us to try and understand it as it is not transform it into a
virtual text that fits our favorite language model.
However, I will admit that supplying an empty constituent can have some
analytical benefits. I do it frequently.
greetings,
Clay Bartholomew
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