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Book about German Sentence Structure
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reviewer: clarify syntactic position vs. scope #15

Open stefan11 opened 5 years ago

stefan11 commented 5 years ago

p. 52/52: remarks on the syntactic position of "gezielt" in Jacob's analysis: Does it really make sense to assume that syntactic position maps 1-1 on semantic scope? In the HPSG environment of the present book that is far from obvious.

Yes, I think so. According to the Jacobs analysis it is [ Adv [ .... ]], according to my analysis it is [ Adv _v ] [ .... _v ]. That is it is one verb that may be deeper embedded, not necessarily the topmost verb.

To do: make clearer?