The Pragmatics and Syntax of German Inalienable Possession Constructions

Coherent Constructions in German: Lexicon or Syntax?

This paper addresses the issue of embedded zu-infinitival clauses in German from the perspective of a formal grammatical framework, tree adjoining grammar (TAG) and related tree rewriting systems.1 Two radically different analyses have been proposed for this construction. According to the “syntactic” analysis, embedded infinitivals in German are analyzed essentially as in English, namely as cla...

Lexical Generalizations in the Syntax of German Non-Finite Constructions

Alienable-Inalienable Asymmetry in Japanese and Korean Possession

Discontinuous NPs in German A Case Study of the Interaction of Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics

the Interaction of Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics by Kordula De Kuthy, published by CSLI Publications. ©2002 by CSLI Publications. All rights reserved. This text may be used and shared in accordance with the fair-use provisions of U.S. copyright law, and it may be archived and redistributed in electronic form, provided that this entire notice, including copyright information, is carried and p...

Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics of Contexts

The notion of context is indispensable in discussions of meaning, but the word context has often been used in conflicting senses. In logic, the first representation of context as a formal object was by the philosopher C. S. Peirce; but for nearly eighty years, his treatment was unknown outside a small group of Peirce aficionados. In the early 1980s, three new theories included related notions o...