Word Order and Constituent Structure in German

Hinrichs, Erhard; Nakazawa, Tsuneko; Uszkoreit, Hans

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“…4 See section 2.1.2 for a discussion of these intuitions. 5 One could object to this statement, claiming that Referat is in fact an <Experiencer>, because it becomes the subject of the passivized phrase (Uszkoreit 1987). This, however, would invoke the non-light meaning of »hold«, resulting in the interpretation »Pia is standing there with the presentation in her hands«, as opposed to »Pia is presenting«.…”

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German Light Verb Constructions as a Testing Battery for Linguistic Theory

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2023

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*This is a 2009 master's thesis on German light verb constructions, submitted here solely for the purpose of making it publicly available*. ABSTRACT: In dieser Arbeit werden drei linguistische Theorien hinsichtlich ihrer Fähigkeit überprüft, deutsche Funktionsverbgefüge zu erklären. Als Kriterien für eine gute Theorie nenne ich die Eigenschaft, grammatische Konstruktionen systematisch zu erklären, ohne Ad-Hoc-Annahmen postulieren zu müssen; außerdem sollte eine Theorie, die Sprache als kognitives System ernst nimmt, falsifizierbare Hypothesen über die mentale Prozessualisierung von Grammatik auf- stellen.Für das erste Kriterium sind Funktionsverbgefüge interessant, weil sie sich sehr idiosynkratisch in Syntax und Semantik verhalten, besonders was die Zuweisung semantischer und syntaktischer Rollen angeht. Ich skizziere dieses Verhalten; Daten aus Grammatikalitätsurteilen belegen, dass das scheinbar idiosynkratische Auftreten von Funktionsverbgefügen systematischen Charakter hat. Das zweite Kriterium wird an Hand von Ergebnissen einer Studie überprüft, die die Prozessualisierung von Funktionsverbgefügen untersucht hat.Ein Vergleich zwischen Generativer Syntax, Konstruktionsgrammatik und der Tripartite Parallel Architecture ergibt, dass letztere beide Kriterien für einer kognitiv fundierte linguistische Theorie erfüllt.

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German Light Verb Constructions as a Testing Battery for Linguistic Theory

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“…An alternative analysis using flat structures has been proposed byUszkoreit (1987). See alsoReape (1990Reape ( , 1994 andKathol (1995Kathol ( , 2000 for linearisation-based accounts.…”

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Conjuncts-as-complements: A lexical approach to SGF coordination in German

Crysmann

2022

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In this paper, I shall discuss a peculiar coordination construction in German, where the shared subject of the two conjuncts is not found peripheral, but is contained within the first conjunct. Following Höhle (1983), this construction is called “Subject Gaps in Finite/Fronted” clauses (SGF). I shall discuss previous accounts, both symmetric coordination approaches (Frank, 2002; Kathol, 1999), as well as asymmetric adjunction approaches (Büring & Hartmann, 1998). The analysis I shall propose will treat the construction as coordination semantically, yet assume a head complement structure that combines the licensing first conjunct with an incomplete (=slashed) coordinate structure complement. I shall show how this addresses the ATB condition, permits straightforward licensing of the subject gap, and provides better control over the second conjunct, thereby improving over the adjunct analysis.

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“…dóid and resultative compounds in ÌGBO is mainly caused by the application of different ID-schemata, as suggested by Müller (2002: 87) and Godard & Samvelian (2021: 441-446): Whereas RSVC are licensed by the head-complements-scheme,resultative compounds are licensed by the head-cluster -scheme. The crucial difference relies on the specification of the feature lex introduced by Hinrichs & Nakazawa (1989 and further developed by Müller (2013: 243-246) in order to account for predicate complex formation in German: Embedded predicates which bear the value lex+, have comps-list that are not yet saturated when it is combined with the head daughter. In contrast, predicates specified as lex− have an empty comps-list and all their complements already realised prior they are combined with a light verb or auxiliary.…”

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Accounting for the variation in West Benue resultative constructions

Maché

2022

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This paper investigates the variation of resultative serial verb constructions in Benue-Kwa languages. The main claim is that the variation can be explained assuming three versions of general lexicon rules which turn main verbs into complex predicates selecting for a second verb and attracting its arguments. Each language has a language specific version of these lexicon rules, enriched with language specific peculiarities to account for the specific behaviour of verbal inflection. The fact that not all of the lexicon rules do operate in each languages is another source of variation.

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Word Order and Constituent Structure in German

Cited by 53 publications

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German Light Verb Constructions as a Testing Battery for Linguistic Theory

German Light Verb Constructions as a Testing Battery for Linguistic Theory

Conjuncts-as-complements: A lexical approach to SGF coordination in German

Accounting for the variation in West Benue resultative constructions

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