The Information Structure of Discontinuous NPs in German
- This paper investigates a particular word order phenomenon in German, the occurrence of discontinuous NPs (which we refer to as the NP-PP split construction) in order to probe the division of labor between the syntactic analysis and discourse constraints on this construction. We argue that some of the factors which previous literature has tried to explain in terms of syntactic restrictions are in fact derivable from discourse factors. Building on these insights, we show how an information structure component can be integrated into an HPSG account of the phenomenon.
| Author: | Kordula De KuthyORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-708087 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2001.10 |
| ISSN: | 1535-1793 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications |
| Place of publication: | Stanford, CA |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2002/05/01 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2002 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Contributing Corporation: | International Conference on Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (8 : 2001 : Trondheim) |
| Release Date: | 2024/08/28 |
| GND Keyword: | Nominalphrase; Informationsstruktur; Präpositionalphrase |
| Volume: | 8.2002 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Page Number: | 14 |
| First Page: | 148 |
| Last Page: | 161 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
| 4 Sprache / 43 Deutsch, germanische Sprachen allgemein / 430 Germanische Sprachen; Deutsch | |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
