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Due to the relatively free positioning of adverbial modifiers in English, the
examples do not require the use of passive for constructing the constellations
relevant for the Langacker-Ross constraint - in contradistinction to the con-
structions analyzed in the two previous sections.
The examples 1 and 2 are based on the following DBS graph analysis:
11.6.2 A
DVERBIAL MODIFIER SENTENCE
:P
RONOUN IN HIGHER CLAUSE
1.
LH':
When
Mary
returned
she
kissed John.
2.
H'L:
%
She
kissed John when
Mary
returned.
(i)
semantic relations graph (SRG)
(iii)
numbered arcs graph (NAG)
kiss
b.
kiss
a.
kiss
1
5
4
8
6
1
4
2
5
8
3
7
(Mary)/ça
return
John
ça
return
John
(Mary)/ça
return
John
6
7
2
3
Mary
Mary
Mary
(ii)
signature
V
(iv)
surface realization
a.
1
2
3
4−5
6
John
78
When
Mary
returned
she
kissed
(N)
V
N
b.
%
1
2
3
4−5
6
7
8
.
She
kissed
John
when
Mary
returned
N
As expected, the
H'L
NAG (b) and the associated surface realization (b) are
limited to an indexical interpretation of the pronoun. The content represented
by the SRG may be shown as the following set of proplets:
11.6.3 R
EPRESENTING VARIANT
1
AS A SET OF PROPLETS
⎡
⎣
⎡
⎣
⎤
⎦
⎡
⎣
⎤
⎦
⎤
⎦
⎡
⎣
⎤
⎦
⎡
⎣
⎤
⎦
verb: return
cat: v
sem: past
arg: Mary
mdd: (kiss 40)
prn: 39
verb: kiss
cat: decl
sem: past
arg: (Mary 39)/ça John
mdr: (return 39)
prn: 40
noun: Mary
cat: nm
sem: sg f
fnc: return
prn: 39
noun: (Mary 39)/ça
cat: nm
sem: sg f
fnc: kiss
prn: 40
noun: John
cat: nm
sem: sg m
fnc: kiss
prn: 40
The ambiguity of the SRG content, realized by the
LH'
variant 1 and based on
the NAG (a) traversal, is coded into the ambiguous value
(Mary 39)/ça
.The
set of proplets represents an unanchored content because there is no STAR.
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