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Towards an HPSG Analysis of Object Shift in Danish

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Formal Grammar (FG 2013, FG 2012)

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This paper develops an analysis of object shift in Danish. We suggest that object shift is best analyzed as an alternative mapping from the arg-st list to spr and comps.

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Müller, S., Ørsnes, B. (2013). Towards an HPSG Analysis of Object Shift in Danish. In: Morrill, G., Nederhof, MJ. (eds) Formal Grammar. FG FG 2013 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8036. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39998-5_5

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