Klaus Netter (netter@dfki.uni-sb.de)
Fri, 21 Jul 95 10:16:09 +0200
|> As an hpsg novice can I ask how Andreas Kathol's example is handled: |> |> (1) Ein [NOM] Fehler unterlaufen ist ihr noch nie. `A mistake has never yet |> happened to her'. |> |> |> My question is how hpsg allows the subject to combine with the verb before |> the complement does. |> |> |> We've recently been discussing similar examples on the next-door neighbour |> list, dg. Interesting to see them coming up here too. Can anyone point me to |> a good discussion of the facts (apart from Hans Uszkoreit's very helpful |> 1987 paper)? |> ============================================================================ |> Prof Richard Hudson Tel: +44 171 387 7050 ext 3152 There is a paper by Hubert Haider, Univ. of Stuttgart, where he discusses issues such as the effects that definiteness, intransitivization etc. can have on these types of constructions. The title is "Topicalization and other puzzles of German syntax". Unfortunately I only have a manuscript version, but I am pretty sure that it appeared somewhere. Maybe somebody else can help with the bib-ref. It must have appeared sometimes after 1987. Klaus ********************************************************* DFKI Saarbruecken, Tel.: (+49 - 681) 302 - 5283 Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 Fax: (+49 - 681) 302 - 5341 D-66123 Saarbruecken *********************************************************
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