Scrambling and reference in German

Scrambling in German : Extraction into the Mittelfeld

German is a language with a relatively free word order. During the last few years considerable efforts have been made in all syntactic frameworks to explain so-called scrambling phenomena. In the following paper, I deal with some tough cases of German word order which cannot be described by assuming flat sentence structures or word order domains. The phenomena discussed are PP complements of no...

Scrambling in German and the non-locality of local TDGs

Existing analyses of German scrambling phenomena within TAG-related formalisms all use non-local variants of TAG. However, there are good reasons to prefer local grammars, in particular with respect to the use of the derivation structure for semantics. Therefore this paper proposes to use local TDGs, a TAG-variant generating tree descriptions that shows a local derivation structure. However the...

Antecedent Priming at Trace Positions: Evidence from German Scrambling

In Chomsky's theory of grammar, syntactic representations are said to contain movement traces, i.e., syntactically active but phonetically null copies of displaced constituents. Correspondingly, traces have been claimed to form part of the processing of sentence structure by showing that at trace sites the parser reactivates a moved constituent. This view has been contested, however, by researc...

Reference-Free Parallel Imaging with Phase Scrambling (PIPS)

INTRODUCTION: A failure to fulfil sampling requirements in MRI results in aliasing. Receiver coil arrays allow accelerating Fourier encoding by relaxing k-space sampling rules. Parallel imaging either interpolates missing k-space lines [1] or undoes aliasing in image domain [2]. Coil sensitivity data are acquired either prior to the actual scan or as a fully sampled part of k-space (auto-calibr...

Pragmatic Aspects of Scrambling and Topicalization in German: A Centering Approach