Re: German PVP-Fronting

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Tibor Kiss (tibor@heidelbg.ibm.com)
Mon, 24 Jul 1995 09:02:46 +0200 


Hi,

Stefan Mueller refered to a paper by K. Baker regarding the "Ein
Fehler unterlaufen ist mir noch nie"-data in German. The version I
know suffers from the fact that if the Subject occurs on the SUBCAT
(or COMPS), how can you block ungrammatical examples like (1)?

(1) * ihr ein solcher Fehler  unterlaufen ist noch nie
      her a   such    mistake occured     is  yet  never

Examples of this type (where each element of COMPS is realized as a
complement of the fronted participle) cannot be blocked by Baker's (or
any other HPSG-) approach I am aware of.

Best regards,


Tibor Kiss


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