La coordination et l'identité syntaxique des termes

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The terms of a coordination can differ to a certain extent by certain properties, e.g. part of speech, case or person. We propose that the correct description of such phenomena involves radical underspecification. We allow, for example, that an NP can be resolved as [CASE case] or [CASE direct-case], even if, in the language in question, case and direct case can be further specified as nominative or accusative. Moreover, constraints can require that CASE values can be, for example, “at least as specific” as dative, when there exists the possibility of conjunctive types (e.g. accusative&dative). We show how a number of puzzling data in French, English, German or Polish can be accommodated by general rules of coordination and the interaction of constraints affecting the upper and lower bounds of CASE values.