What is a good way of summarizing why lexical threading is needed? In Bouma et al., I think its role is to eliminate subject/complement extraction rules. But in the Grammar Matrix we still use subject and complement extraction. I am assuming we still get some streamlining out of it, but I cannot qui…

The main motivation for lexical threading of SLASH is to enable a better analysis of lexical entries that select for a complement containing a gap, including adjectives such as “easy” (Kim is easy to talk to) and degree specifiers such as “too” (That box is too heavy to carry). Without lexical thre…

I’m afraid I don’t know the answer to the first question — I’m curious what @Dan ’s take is! As for the second one: I believe it has to do with the traceless analysis of long-distance dependencies. That is, the bottom of the long-distance dependency has to introduce the information that something is…

I think your answer to the second question at least partly answers the first one as well :).

I think it will make sense to ask this additional question in this same topic: And what made it undesireable/impossible to actually get rid of the extraction rules in the ERG, like Bouma et al. and Ginzburg and Sag did in their theoretical accounts? I know I have asked this before, more than once, b…

Chiming in to say I’m fairly sure the reason that Bouma et al can’t be directly implemented is that the DEPS list of unbounded/indeterminate length, which isn’t feasible in tdl…

Is there any paper that documents it with minimal examples?

The easy-adjectives? Maybe look in Sag, Wasow, Bender (e.g. Chapter 14). Or which aspect are you asking about?

To many things that I was not able to find in Wet, Wasow and Bender: lexical threading, lexical threading of SLASH, SLASH and the TO-BIND mechanism. But I am reading now Chapter 14 to understand GAP…

Hmm well, you could try my dissertation , the Background and Previous Work chapters?.. E.g. sections 4.1.1–4.1.2? I tried to explain lexical threading there, for non-specialist audience…

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Thank you, Dan!

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