The Babel-System - Phenomena
The following phenomena are implemented in the
Babel-System
and documented in
Deutsche Syntax Deklarativ.
You will find the better maintained list with some more details and callable
sample sentences on the
German page.
- morphology
- a hierarchy of lexical types/templates is used
- lexical rules are used to produce inflected lexical entries
- syntax/semantics
- subcategorization and linking of thematic roles
- semantics in the spirit of situation semantics, i.e., infons, indices and so on
- modification
- adjectives,
- adverbs,
- negation,
- relative clauses
- free relative clauses
- as complements
- as modifiers
- in copula constructions
- case compatibility
- with extraposition of relative clauses
- possessives
- agreement
- adjectives, nouns, determiners
- relative pronouns and their antecedens
- subject-verb-agreement
- auxiliaries,
- subjectless verbs
- case assignment
- A distinction between structural and lexical case is made.
This can be used to account for facts related to German auxiliary constructions
(perfect/passive).
- active / passive
- haben/sein + zu-infinitive
- Accusative with Infinitive (ECM)
- remote passive
- recipient passive (dative passive)
- equi and raising verbs
- coherent and incoherent constructions.
- (Symmetrical) Coordination
- German word order
- verb-first, verb-second and verb-final sentences
- Unbounded Dependencies
- fronting of adverbs and complements
- relative clauses
- relative pronouns in complements and adjuncts
- pied piping
- Partial Verb Phrase Fronting (generalized for adjectives, prefixes and verbs)
- Fronting of separable prefixes
- Preposition Stranding
- Extraposition
- A treatment of extraposition via word order domains is implemented.
- Extraposition with antecedent
- Extraposition of parts of Coordinations
- relativly free word order in the Mittelfeld
- word order domains + scrambling schema for special cases
- Oberfeldumstellung auxiliary flip cf. Hinrichs & Nakazawa (1994)
- third construction
- scope of adverbs and negation depending on whether a verb constructs
coherently or incoherently
- Anaphora Binding
