Wh-copying in German as replacement
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Andreas Pankau
Abstract
This paper offers an argument for the superiority of a view on sentence structure based on grammatical relations compared to one based on phrase structure (PS) representation. The argument is based on the phenomenon of wh-copying in German. Wh-copying in German poses a problem for approaches based on PS representations because the construction is governed by two generalizations which a PS approach fails to capture. As soon as a relational perspective on syntactic structures is adopted, however, the generalizations can be captured. I will present an analysis for wh-copying in German within the Arc Pair Grammar framework, which does adopt such a relational view. It will be shown that the operation Replace in interaction with other principles of that framework successfully captures the two generalizations of wh-copying in German, and that it eventually even allows one to reduce the two generalizations to a single one.
Abstract
This paper offers an argument for the superiority of a view on sentence structure based on grammatical relations compared to one based on phrase structure (PS) representation. The argument is based on the phenomenon of wh-copying in German. Wh-copying in German poses a problem for approaches based on PS representations because the construction is governed by two generalizations which a PS approach fails to capture. As soon as a relational perspective on syntactic structures is adopted, however, the generalizations can be captured. I will present an analysis for wh-copying in German within the Arc Pair Grammar framework, which does adopt such a relational view. It will be shown that the operation Replace in interaction with other principles of that framework successfully captures the two generalizations of wh-copying in German, and that it eventually even allows one to reduce the two generalizations to a single one.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Authors vii
- Foreword ix
- Dependency in Language 1
- Delimitation of information between grammatical rules and lexicon 33
- Sentence structure and discourse structure 53
- The Copenhagen Dependency Treebank (CDT) 75
- Creating a dependency syntactic treebank 99
- A proposal for a multilevel linguistic representation of Spanish personal names 119
- Coordination of verbal dependents in Old French 141
- Dependency annotation of coordination for learner language 161
- The dependency distance hypothesis for bilingual code-switching 183
- Dependencies over prosodic boundary tones in spontaneous spoken Hebrew 207
- Clitics in dependency morphology 229
- On the word order of Actor and Patient in Czech 253
- Type 2 Rising 273
- Wh-copying in German as replacement 299
- Representation of zero and dummy subject pronouns within multi-strata dependency framework 325
- Index 347
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Authors vii
- Foreword ix
- Dependency in Language 1
- Delimitation of information between grammatical rules and lexicon 33
- Sentence structure and discourse structure 53
- The Copenhagen Dependency Treebank (CDT) 75
- Creating a dependency syntactic treebank 99
- A proposal for a multilevel linguistic representation of Spanish personal names 119
- Coordination of verbal dependents in Old French 141
- Dependency annotation of coordination for learner language 161
- The dependency distance hypothesis for bilingual code-switching 183
- Dependencies over prosodic boundary tones in spontaneous spoken Hebrew 207
- Clitics in dependency morphology 229
- On the word order of Actor and Patient in Czech 253
- Type 2 Rising 273
- Wh-copying in German as replacement 299
- Representation of zero and dummy subject pronouns within multi-strata dependency framework 325
- Index 347
