Towards an HPSG Analysis of Object Shift in Danish
Author: Stefan Müller and Bjarne ØrsnesSubject Areas: Object Shift, Partial Fronting, Danish, HPSG
This paper appeared 2013 in Glyn Morrill and Mark-Jan Nederhof (eds.) Formal Grammar: 17th and 18th International Conferences, FG 2012, Opole, Poland, August 2012, Revised Selected Papers, FG 2013, Düsseldorf, Germany, August 2013. Proceedings, Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer, pages 69–89.
This paper develops an analysis of object shift in Danish in the framework of HPSG. We suggest that object shift is best analyzed as an alternative mapping from the arg-st list to spr and comps.
The facts that are known under the name Holmberg's Generalization are captured by two linearization constraints.
The analysis of partial verb phrase fronting uses the technique of argument attraction that has also been suggested for the analysis of partial frontings in German. However, in our analysis, the arguemts are attracted from the spr list of the embedded projection rather than from the comps list as it has been suggested for German.
The analysis is part of a computer-processable fragment of Danish that shares a common core with several other languages.
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