Positional effects in a monostratal grammar of German  

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Kathol, Andreas

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Linguistics (Full Text & ada di PROQUEST & JSTOR) vol. 37 no. 1 (Mar. 2001), page 35-66.
Fulltext: 35-66.pdf (382.16KB)

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This study examines the notion of syntactic position as it is manifested in German. Transformational approaches standardly rely on con®gurational notions such as speci®er or head for positional effects. A closer investigation of German subordinate structures ®nds the standard positional dichotomy between heads and speci®ers wanting. At the same time, the distributional facts strongly argue for an explicit recognition of the notion of syntactic position, albeit one that is not based on treecon ®gurational notions, but instead in terms of linearly de®ned classes of distribution among constituents within the clause. Finally it is argued that this approach provides the basis for characterizing clause types which naturally generalizes over different immediate dominance relations.5-1f6d

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