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Stefan Müller: An Analysis of Depictive Secondary Predicates in German without Discontinuous Constituents
In Müller, 2005 I provide evidence that suggests that linearization approaches
that analyze German clause structure with discontinuous constituents
cannot account for the German clause structure in an insightful way.
In order to eliminate the very powerful concept of linearization
domains and discontinuous constituents from the grammar,
analyses of other phenomena which also rely on discontinuous constituents should therefore
be revised.
In this paper, I develop an analysis of German depictive secondary predicates
that differs from the one suggested in Müller, 2002 by assuming binary branching structures,
verb movment, and continuous constituents instead of a linearization approach. Some shortcomings of previous analyses are pointed
out and it is shown how linearization constraints regarding depictive predicate and antecedent
can be modeled.
Maintained by Stefan Müller
Created: August 11, 2004
Last modified: March 10, 2008
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