ABSTRACT

In §§ 1.4–1.9 we uncovered various motivations for allowing a single NP to be associated in underlying structure with more than one CR. It is clear that this must affect our conception of how case nodes are introduced, and in particular of how the appropriate NP is to be brought into association with the correct CR or CRs: the rules of Fillmore’s which allow for the representations discussed in §1.3 depend on there existing for each NP only one CR. Let us therefore, as a basis for our discussion, review the range of possibilities that must be allowed for, given the discussion thus far.