18 October 2021

[45] Some Problems With Non-Iterative/Non-Nuclear/Linear Structures

Doran (2021):



Blogger Comments:

To be clear, here Doran is looking for structures that fit the combination of factors that specify the last unfilled cell of his table.

Ignoring all the previously noted problems with the factors themselves, by the logic of the table, Doran should be looking for a structure that is:

  1. the non-nuclear counterpart of subjacency duplexes, and
  2. the non-iterative counterpart of covariate lexical relations, and
  3. the linear counterpart of relational clauses without a Process.

He tentatively suggests:

  • correlative conjunctions in English, or
  • clitic doubling in Spanish, or
  • full reduplication in Sundanese.

There is no argument as to how these satisfy the three requirements above, and in the case of correlative conjunctions — which do not, in themselves, constitute a structure — the structure that they mark is a paratactic clause complex, a univariate structure, which, in terms of Doran's factors is:

  • iterative rather than non-iterative, and
  • non-linear rather than linear.