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These essays apply the syntactic theory of Carl Pollard and Ivan Sag—Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)—to a formal study and analysis of German grammar. A wide variety of fundamental and well-known phenomena in German grammar are addressed, including the German passive and impersonal passive, various Mittelfeld and Vorfeld word-order phenomena (including auxiliary stacking and the distribution of adjuncts), and the structure of phrasal constituents. Linguistic issues include the treatment of idioms, word-order variation and phrase structure constituency, subcategorization, complementation, argument structure, case assignment, lexical rules, and syntactic ambiguity. The theoretical background for these essays can be found in Information-Based Syntax and Semantics and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, both by Pollard and Sag and both available from the University of Chicago Press.

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Author:   John Nerbonne (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands) ,  Klaus Netter (German AI Center, Saarbrücken) ,  Carl Pollard (Ohio State University)
Publisher:   Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Imprint:   Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Edition:   2nd ed.
Volume:   46
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.575kg
ISBN:  

9781881526292

ISBN 10:   1881526291
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   30 January 1995
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Complement inheritance as subcategorization Dale Gerdemann; 2. Argument structure and case assignment in German Wolfgang Heinz and Johannes Matiasek; 3. Linearizing AUXs in German verbal complexes Erhard Hinrichs and Tsuneko Nakazawa; 4. Adjuncts in the Mittelfeld Robert Kasper; 5. Passives without lexical rules Andreas Kathol; 6. Obligatory coherence: the structure of German modal verb constructions Tibor Kiss; 7. Idioms and support verb constructions Brigitte Krenn and Gregor Erbach; 8. Partial verb phrases and spurious ambiguities John Nerbonne; 9. Towards a theory of functional heads: German nominal phrases Klaus Netter; 10. Toward a unified account of passive in German Carl Pollard; 11. Domain union and word order variation in German Mike Reape.

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Erhard W. Hinrichs is professor of general and computational linguistics at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in Germany. John Nerbonne is professor of information science at the University of Groningen, Netherlands.

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