On Partial Constituent Fronting in German

Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 143-205

  De Kuthy, Kordula ^a   Meurers, Walt Detmar ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

argument raising; coherent construction; German syntax; HPSG; lexical generalizations; partial constituents; reanalysis; remnant movement; topicalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937340935     PISSN: 13834924     EISSN: 15728552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011926510300     Document Type: Article

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