Mehrfache Vorfeldbesetzung/Multiple Frontings in German
Author: Stefan MüllerSubject Areas: Nontransformational syntax of German, HPSG, Mutiple Frontings
Title: Mehrfache Vorfeldbesetzung/Multiple Constituents in the Vorfeld
A long version of this article will appear in Linguistischen Berichte.
A short version appeared in Stephan Busemann (Ed). 2002: Konvens 2002, 6. Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache, Proceedings, Saarbrücken, Seiten 115-122. An even shorter version appeared in Gerhard Jäger, Paola Monachesi, Gerald Penn and Shuly Winter (Eds): Proceedings der Formal Grammar 2002, Trento. The data discussion appears in Deutsche Sprache.
In this paper I show that in German multiple constituents can be fronted although German is usually regarded a verb second language. I develop an HPSG analysis that treats the fronted constituents as one unit that is related to a verb in the main sentence.
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