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Jean-Pierre Koenig and Anthony R. Davis: Raising Doubts about Russian Impersonals
The Russian data presented in Perlmutter and Moore (2002) seem to
call into question the standard analysis of raising within Head-driven Phrase
Structure Grammar (HPSG): In Russian, the case marking of the raising target
and raising pivot does not seem to be shared. In this paper, we show that
the phenomena described by Perlmutter and Moore can receive another analysis,
fully compatible with HPSG's theory of raising. We argue in addition
that our account leads to a slightly simpler model of the Russian data than
Perlmutter and Moore's. Crucially, our analysis is only available if we avail
ourselves of a rich network of language-specific constructional schemata, a
stance recently advocated within HPSG, following the lead of Construction
Grammar.
Maintained by Stefan Müller
Created: October 17, 2004
Last modified: March 10, 2008
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