Case Assignment in Partially Fronted Constituents
نویسندگان
چکیده
The topicalization of partial constituents has played a prominent role in the syntactic discussion of German since the phenomenon provides important empirical evidence for a number of theoretical issues. On the one hand, the construction raises the question which formal means the grammatical architecture has to provide in order to license such fronted partial constituents. Under the so-called remnant-movement approach (G. Müller, 1993, 1996, and others), the partially fronted elements are taken to be full constituents containing a trace. The alternative is to analyze such elements as “small” constituents which are licensed, for example, by a special reanalysis rule as proposed by Fanselow (1987). A second issue evolves around partial constituents in the syntax of German non-finite constructions, where partial-VP topicalization is one of the indicators of the so-called coherent construction (Bech, 1955). A prominent theoretical question here is whether partial-VP constituents only occur in fronted position, or whether they also occur in the Mittelfeld or extraposed (cf., e.g. Geilfuß, 1991). As these topics have played a central role in the SFB 340, they constitute a natural focus for the project B8, whose task includes the integration and formalization of different proposals in the SFB in order to implement them as part of a phenomenon-oriented HPSG fragment for German (Hinrichs et al., 1997). In addition to general concerns with German sentence structure and verb-second (Richter, 1997; Richter and Sailer, 2001), the two issues mentioned in the last paragraph have thus been
منابع مشابه
Mechanisms of Sentence Processing: Assigning Roles to Constituents of Sentences
Like many natural cognitive processes, the process of sentence comprehension involves the simultaneous consideration of a large number of different sources of information. In this chapter, we consider one aspect of sentence comprehension: the assignment of the constituents of a sentence to the correct thematic case roles. Case role assignment is not, of. course, all there is to comprehension, b...
متن کاملThe processing of non-canonically ordered constituents in long distance dependencies by pre-school children: a real-time investigation.
Four experiments were performed which had the goal of determining how and when young children acquire the ability to understand long distance dependencies. These studies examined the operations underlying the auditory processing of non-canonically ordered constituents in object-relative sentences. Children 4-6 years of age and an adult population participated in the study, which employed a cros...
متن کاملTeacher Wait-Time and Learner Initiation: A Single Case Analysis
The prevailing pattern of classroom interaction is a tripartite exchange structure known as IRF (teacher initiation, student response, teacher follow-up/feedback; Sinclair & Coulthard, 1975). Although it has its own contributions to classroom discourse, it has been criticized on several grounds, particularly for affording minimum learner participation opportunities (Kasper, 2001). An alternativ...
متن کاملTowards a General Theory of PartialConstituent Fronting
1 The issue The topicalization of partial constituents in German has received much attention in the literature since the phenomenon is a serious challenge to the theory of constituency. In the HPSG paradigm, the attention has focussed on the topicalization of partial verb phrases. 1 But G. M uller (1993, 1996) and others discussed that partial constituent fronting in German also occurs with nom...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
دوره شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001