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c-command

Definitions

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  • noun The relationship between a node in a parse tree and its sibling nodes (usually meaning the children of the first branching node that dominates the node) and all the sibling nodes' children.

Etymologies

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A shortened form of "constituent command." The term may also have been chosen so as to eliminate confusion in speech with the similar notion kommand.

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Examples

  • In [3] “no farmer” does not c-command “his”, and so we predict, correctly, that the pronoun cannot be bound.

    Discourse Representation Theory Geurts, Bart 2007

  • Most importantly, this type of interpretation requires that the pronoun be c-commanded by its antecedent, where c-command is defined as follows:

    Discourse Representation Theory Geurts, Bart 2007

  • Here the pronoun is contained in the sister of its antecedent, so the c-command constraint is met.

    Discourse Representation Theory Geurts, Bart 2007

  • The domain of the accessibility constraint overlaps with that of the c-command constraint, but it is wider.

    Discourse Representation Theory Geurts, Bart 2007

  • Whatever the syntactical details, “a donkey” is too deeply embedded for it to c-command “it”.

    Discourse Representation Theory Geurts, Bart 2007

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