Complex Predicates – Verbal Complexes, Resultative Constructions & Particle Verbs in German (Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism) - Softcover

Muller, Stefan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575863863 ISBN 13: 9781575863863

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2003

Synopsis

"Complex Predicates" examines a number of linguistic phenomena - including auxiliary verb combinations, causative constructions, predicatives, depictive secondary predicates, and particle and verb combinations - and uses scrambling and fronting data to determine that all except the depictive secondary predicates should be treated as complex predicates. Muller's analysis of inflection and derivation is compatible with syntactical analysis of particle verbs; as a byproduct, it also solves the particle verb bracketing paradox often discussed in the literature.

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About the Author

Stefan Muller is a senior researcher at the DFKI Saarbrucken Language Technology Lab and the chair for Computational Linguistics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena.

Edition details

• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575863863
• ISBN 13: 9781575863863
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544