Phrasal or Lexical Constructions? Some Comments on Underspecification of Constituent Order, Compositionality, and Control
Author: Stefan MüllerSubject Areas: Construction Grammar, HPSG, resultative construction, particle verb, constituent order, inheritance, control
This paper appeared in 2007 in Stefan Müller (Ed): Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Stanford Department of Linguistics and CSLI's LinGO Lab, Stanford: CSLI Publications, pages 373–393.
This paper is a follow up on Müller, 2006. It contains some comments on suggestions about the interaction of phrasal Constructions with constituent order that Adele Goldberg made at various occasions. In addition the paper discusses various HPSG analyses of particle verbs that assume lexical representations including phonologically specified parts of particle verb lexical entries. A recent phrasal analysis of resultatives (Haugereid, 2007) is discussed as well and it is pointed out that control constructions pose problems for phrasal analyses that do not assume empty elements but require that the subject is realized in a phrasal configuration.
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