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The paper discusses different approaches to the analysis of finite verb position in German within the framework of HPSG. It argues that among three parameters (a) Standard subcategorization and adjunction, (b) uniform structural representation and (c) clause initial finite verbs as heads, only two can be maintained simultaneously, unless additional devices are introduced. We abandon (c) and present an approach which allows to derive a binary right-branching structure for the “Mittelfeld” also for V-initial structures without modifications of general principles of the theory. The key to the analysis is the postulation of an empty node as a functional head which takes the finite verb as a complement.
Die Arbeit diskutiert mehrere Analysen für die Stellung des finiten Verbums im Deutschen im Rahmen der HPSG. Es wird argumentiert, dafi von den daß Parametern (a) Standard Subkategorisierung und Adjunktion, (b) uniforme strukturelle Representation und (c) initiate Verben als Köpfe, ohne eine Erweiterung der Theorie um spezielle Mechanismen nur zwei aufrechterhalten werden können. Wir geben (c) auf und diskutieren eine Analyse, die auch bei V-initialen Strukturen ein binär verzweigendes Mittelfeld erzeugt, ohne daß generelle Modifikationen die Theorie erforderlich werden. Der Schlüssel für die Analyse ist die Annahme eines leeren Knoten als funktionalen Kopf des Satzes, der das finite Verbum als Komplement subkategorisiert.
The research underlying this paper was supported by a research grant, FKZ ITW 9002 0, from the German Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie und Technologie to the DFKI project DISCO. Wer would like to thank Sergio Balari, John Nerbonne, Maike Paritong and Hans Uszkoreit for dicussions and comments. The described approach has been implemented in the DISCO system on the basis of the type description language TDL.
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Netter, K. (1992). On Non-Head Non-Movement. In: Görz, G. (eds) Konvens 92. Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77809-4_23
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