Prof. Dr. Walt Detmar Meurers
Publications
Towards a General Theory of Partial Constituent Fronting in German

  

Kordula De Kuthy and W. Detmar Meurers

  

In: Gosse Bouma, Geert-Jan Kruijff, and Richard Oehrle (eds.): "Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Formal Grammar, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, and Categorial Grammar (FHCG-98)". Saarbrücken, Germany. 1998.

  

We present an account for general partial constituent fronting in German. The account extends the empirical coverage of previous HPSG proposals in a way which accounts for the similarities and the differences between three different kinds of partial constituents: partial APs, NPs, and VPs. The similarities derive from a generalization of the argument raising approach to PVPs: a lexical principle which introduces argument raising as a general possibility for verbal heads. The differences result from the different requirements with respect to the lexicality of the complements as specified in the lexical entries and a relation parameterizing the lexical principle. As additional support for the analysis, we showed that the approach predicts the observable interaction between (partial) VP topicalization and partial NPs or APs.

  


  

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Bibtex entry:

  
    @InProceedings{dekuthy:meurers:98.1,
    author        = {Kordula {De Kuthy} and Walt Detmar Meurers},
    title         = {Towards a General Theory of Partial Constituent
    Fronting in {German}},
    editor        = {Gosse Bouma and Geert-Jan Kruijff and Richard Oehrle},
    booktitle     = {Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Formal 
    Grammar, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, and 
    Categorial Grammar (FHCG-98)},
    pages         = {113--124},
    year          = 1998,
    address       = {Saarbr\"ucken}
    }
                


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