Syntax and semantics of it-clefts: a tree adjoining...Ohno who won: an expletive approach where the cleft pronoun is an expletive and the cleft clause bears a direct syntactic or semantic relation to the clefted constituent, and a discontinuous constituent approach where the cleft pronoun has a semantic content and the cleft clause bears a direct syntactic or semantic re-lation to the cleft pronoun....
Spanish comparative phrases of equality with a definite article... In the former case, the article is not an independent quantifier, but a discontinuous constituent in a phrase functioning as the quantifying modifier of the comparative head
A grammar formalism with augmented phrase-construction rules... The 'phrase-construction rules' of this grammar generate syntactic representations in the form of tree structures which may contain crossing branches, indicating the presence of a discontinuous constituent that functions as a syntactic unit....
The syntax and semantics of it-clefts: a tree-adjoining grammar analysis...Ohno who won’: an expletive approach where the cleft pronoun is an expletive and the cleft clause bears a direct syntactic or semantic relation to the clefted constituent, and a discontinuous constituent approach where the cleft pronoun has a semantic content and the cleft clause bears a direct syntactic or semantic relation to the cleft pronoun....
