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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>In morphosyntax, '''co-analysis''' is a concept proposed by Williams (1979) and Di Sciullo & Williams (1987) to account for a situation where one grammatical function (e.g. [[possessive]]) is expressed syntactically as well as morphologically, i.e. by adding a grammatical element both to a phrase as a whole and to the [[head]] of that phrase. <br />
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===Examples===<br />
The English possessive marker '''s'' sometimes appears to be attached to a possessor phrase as a whole (cf. (i)), and in other cases it seems to be attached to a [[noun]] (cf. (ii)):<br />
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''(i) [the man on the corner]'s hat''<br />
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''(ii) his hat (= [he]'s hat)''<br />
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Phrases such as the one in (iii) are ambiguous, since the possessive is either attached to the [[NP]] ''the man'' or to the [[N]] ''man''. To account for this [[ambiguity]], Williams & Di Sciullo assign a co-analyzed structure to the [[NP]] ''the man's'', cf. (iv):<br />
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(''iii) the man's hat (= [the man]'s hat or the [man]'s hat)''<br />
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(iv) <br />
NP<br />
/ \<br />
NP \<br />
/ \ \ <br />
the man's hat<br />
\ | / <br />
\ N /<br />
\ \ / <br />
\ N<br />
\ /<br />
NP<br />
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===Comment===<br />
Co-analysis means that a syntactic and a morphological representation are assigned to one phrase.<br />
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===Link===<br />
[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Co-analysis&lemmacode=880 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics] <br />
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===References===<br />
*Di Sciullo, A. M. & Williams, E. 1987. ''On the Definition of Word.'' Cambridge, Mass: MIT-press.<br />
*Williams, E. 1979. Discourse and Logical Form. ''Linguistic Inquiry 8-1,'' 101-139.<br />
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