Splitting PPs from NPs

Kordula De Kuthy

In: Walt Detmar Meurers and Tibor Kiss (eds.): Constraint-based Approaches to Germanic Syntax, Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2001.

In this paper, we explore a certain variant of discontinuous NPs in German, the splitting of PPs from NPs. The phenomenon is a challenge for a syntactic theory, because the possibility of splitting the PP from the NP does not only depend on certain syntactic configurations, but also on the lexical material involved. This paper thus pursues two aims: Firstly, finding an appropriate syntactic analysis and secondly, capturing the lexical-semantic factors influencing the construction.

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Bibtex entry:

@InCollection{dekuthy:01,
  author = 	 {Kordula {De Kuthy}},
  title = 	 {Splitting PPs from NPs},
  booktitle = 	 {Constraint-based Approaches to Germanic Syntax},
  publisher =	 {CSLI Publications},
  year =	 {2001},
  editor =	 {Walt Detmar Meurers and Tibor Kiss},
  address =	 {Stanford, CA},
  pages =        {31--76}
}