Stichwörter: German Syntax, HPSG
Titel: Syntactic Properties of German Particle Verbs
In this paper it is argued that preverbs should be treated as parts of the predicate complex. They are serialized in the right sentence bracket (1)-(2) and they can be fronted like adjectives or verbs (3).
(1) Karl kommt abends in Berlin an.
(2) Karl kommt abends in der Stadt an, in der ich wohne.
(3) Fest steht, daß Karl nicht der Mörder war.So it seems reasonable to treat the preverb-verb-constructions in the same way as other predicate complex constructions. Frontings as (3) then can be described as instances of Partial Verb Phrase Fronting.
This paper was presented at HPSG 99. The crucial points of this earlier work are now incorporated into my Habilitation.