NPs in German: Locality, theta roles, possessives, and genitive arguments

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Abstract

Since Abney (1987), the DP-analysis has been the standard analysis for nominal complexes, but in the last decade, the NP analysis has experienced a revival. In this spirit, we provide an NP analysis for German nominal complexes in HPSG. Our analysis deals with the fact that relational nouns assign case and theta role to their arguments. We develop an analysis in line with selectional localism (Sag 2012: 149), accounting for the asymmetry between prenominal and postnominal genitives, as well as for the complementarity between higher arguments and possessives, providing a syntactic and semantic analysis.

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Antonio Machicao y Priemer: (View ORCID Profile)

Stefan Müller: (View ORCID Profile)

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Title: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics

Publisher: Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

ISSN (Electronic): 2397-1835

Publication date Created: April 12 2021

Publication date Created: 2021

Publication date (Print): April 12 2021

Publication date (Print): 2021

Volume: 6

Issue: 1

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DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.1128

SO-VID: f606fec8-0d04-4e06-a38e-df6f346b18bb

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