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Object-to-Subject Raising or Lexical Rule—An HPSG Analysis of the German Passive

Subject Areas: Passive, Lexical Rules, HPSG, German Syntax

In this paper I show that object to subject raising approaches as suggested by Pollard (1994) and me (1999) are problematic since they cannot account for adjective formation in a satisfying way. The approach by Heinz and Matiasek (1994), which is a formalization of Haider's ideas (1986), cannot account for modal infinitives and control.

I develop a lexical rule based approach and it will be shown that this approach also extends to tricky cases of remote passive.

The paper appeard in Werner Zühlke und Ernst G. Schukat-Talamazzini (Eds): KONVENS 2000 Sprachkommunikation. Berlin: VDE Verlag, pages 157-162.

A longer version appeared in Flickinger, Dan and Andreas Kathol (Eds). 2001: Proceedings of the HPSG-2000 Conference, University of California, Berkeley, Stanford: CSLI Publications.

Konvens 2000 Article (6 pages):

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HPSG-2000 Article (20 pages):

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