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Ger­man Par­ti­cle Verbs and the Pred­i­cate Com­plex

Au­thor: Ste­fan Müller

Sub­ject Areas: Ger­man Syn­tax, Pred­i­cate Com­plex, HPSG

In Ron­nie Cann, Claire Grover und Philip Miller (Eds), 2000: Gram­mat­i­cal In­ter­faces in HPSG, Stud­ies in Constraint-​Based Lex­i­cal­ism. Stan­ford: CSLI-​Publications, pages 215–229.

In the paper I argue that sep­a­ra­ble verbs in Ger­man be­have like other el­e­ments in the pred­i­cate com­plex. This view is sup­ported by the fol­low­ing facts: Par­ti­cles are se­ri­al­ized like ver­bal or pred­ica­tive ad­jec­ti­val com­ple­ments in the right sen­tence bracket (the right pe­riph­ery of a clause that does not con­tain ex­tra­posed el­e­ments), they can be fronted as can be done with sin­gle verbs or pred­ica­tive ad­jec­tives. If par­ti­cles are an­a­lyzed as part of the pred­i­cate com­plex, the fronting data can be ac­counted for as an in­stance of com­plex fronting (Par­tial Verb Phrase Fronting (PVP)). The in­abil­ity of par­ti­cles and pred­i­cates in re­sul­ta­tive con­struc­tions to co-​occur and the non-​iterability of par­ti­cles will be ex­plained by the fact that par­ti­cles and re­sul­ta­tive pred­i­cates oc­cupy a des­ig­nated valance po­si­tion that does not allow more than one par­ti­cle or re­sul­ta­tive pred­i­cate.