Positional effects in a monostratal grammar of German
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10140485 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andreas Kathol (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-66 |
| Publication date | 2001-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2267 • E-ISSN: 1469-7742 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022226701008805 |
| OpenAlex | W2023186142 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
This study examines the notion of syntactic position as it is manifested in German. Transformational approaches standardly rely on configurational notions such as specifier or head for positional effects. A closer investigation of German subordinate structures finds the standard positional dichotomy between heads and specifiers 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 tree-configurational notions, but instead in terms of linearly defined 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
Alternation (linguistics · Dependent clause · Dominance (genetics · German · Grammar · Linguistics · Minimalist program · Natural language processing · Noun · Noun phrase · Specifier · Computer Science · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2018 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |