ABSTRACT
InCh.10adistinctionwasdrawnbetweentwotypesofcomplex sentence:thetypegeneratedbyembeddingtransformationsandthe typegeneratedbyconjoiningtransformations.Thedifferencebetween thetwovarietiescanbediagrammedthus:
(i)embedding(ii)conjoining
In(i)weseethatoneunderlyingP-markerdominatesanother-the matrix-constituentrelationship:thisis'domination'inthetechnical senseoftheterminsyntax;oneSnodedominatesanotherSnode. Butin(ii)thereisnodomination:neitherSnodeishigherinthe treethantheother,andthetopnodeofthetreeisunlabelled,forthe branchingbelowitdoesnotdefineanS,butaconjunctionofSs. Thesyntacticnotionofdominationreflects,ratherloosely,the intuitionwemayhavethatonepartofacomplexsentencemaybe moreimportantthantheother(s),oralternativelythattheseparate partsmaybeofequalstatus.Isay'ratherloosely'becausesome conjoinedstructuresdisplayakindoflogicaldependencybetween thepartswhichsuggestspriorityofonepartoveranother:
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