Topicalization, Scrambling, and Argument Scope in German: Integrating Semantic and Syntactic Information  

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Strigin, Anatoli

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 11 no. 4 (Apr. 1994), page 311-363.
Topik: scope phenomena; integrating semantic; syntactic information
Fulltext: vol 11, no 4, p 311-363.pdf (2.37MB)

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The paper proposes an explanation of some argument scope phenomena in German in terms of interaction of syntactic and semantic information. On the assumption that lexical semantics of a verb induces a hierarchical ordering on its arguments, it is proposed that this hierarchy together with the mapping of the hierarchy to syntactic structure define a basic scope configuration. The mapping is controlled both by syntactic and by semantic information. Another hypothesis proposes that changes in the syntactic structure caused by topicalization and scrambling extend the mapping by assigning a specific role to the traces of the moved DPs. The traces can either have the semantic type of DPs or the type of individuals. This typing ambiguity yields two options: either the DP is semantically reconstructed into its original argument position, or the domain of the mapping of verbal arguments is extended. The options correspond to the narrow and the wide scopes of an argument, scope being expressed at the level of Discourse Representation Structures. This treatment of German facts is more restrictive than the ones based on Cooper storage, Logical Form, or Flexible Type Assignment,

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