Phrasal or Lexical Constructions: Some Comments on Underspecification of Constituent Order, Compositionality, and Control
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In this paper I want to discuss Goldberg’s claim that phrasal Constructions can be regarded as underspecified statements about dominance and that therefore my claim that she would have to assume 218 Constructions to account for resultative secondary predication in German is wrong. I will discuss earlier HPSG approaches to particle verbs, which are similar to resultatives in many respects. In addition to this I will provide more data against a surface-based phrasal solution.
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