Syntactic function NPadSS
a complex nominal expression preceding and modifying a sequence of sentences (compare also NPadS)
This is an experimental category which tries to capture the distinction between sentence modifiers the scope of which is one and only one sentence, and those sentence-modifiers the scope of which ranges over a whole sequence of sentences. The reduplicated ad hoc mnemonic symbol "SS" is to indicate that the scope of this NP is not just one sentence but a whole paragraph. The unattractive messiness of this notation is helpful because it reminds us that in principle the analytic system in TLS does not provide means to specify units larger than a sentence. Thus in principle whatever has a paragraph as its grammatical scope comes to look as if it had a sentence as its scope. The deviant notation "SS" would solve this problem.
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