The Syntax of “Complex Prepositions” in German: An HPSG Approach
- Many modern languages commonly use expressions that seem unpredictable regarding standard grammar regularities. Among these expressions, sequences consisting of a preposition, a noun, another preposition, and another noun are particularly frequent. The issue of these expressions, usually termed in linguistic literature as "complex prepositions", "phrasal prepositions" or "preposition-like word formations", can certainly be considered to be a cross-linguistic problem (On "complex prepositions" in German and in other languages see (Benes 1974), (Buscha 1984)}, (Lindqvist 1994), (Meibauer 1995), (Quirk and Mulholland 1964), (Wollmann 1996). In this paper, I will focus exclusively on German data, because they provide very explicit and convincing linguistic evidence which motivates and supports my approach. However, I assert that the analysis proposed here for German can also be applied to other languages such as Polish or English.
Author: | Beata Trawiński |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-57904 |
Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the GLiP-5 Conference. Generative Linguistics in Poland: Morphosyntactic Investigations. Warsaw, Poland. 30 November - 1 December 2002 |
Publisher: | Instytut Podstaw Informatyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk |
Place of publication: | Warsaw |
Editor: | Piotr Bański, Adam Przepiórkowski |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2003 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2017/01/16 |
Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
Tag: | HPSG |
GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Head-driven phrase structure grammar; Präposition |
First Page: | 155 |
Last Page: | 166 |
DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
Open Access?: | ja |
BDSL-Classification: | Grammatik |
Linguistics-Classification: | Grammatikforschung |
Licence (German): | Urheberrechtlich geschützt |