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Book about German Sentence Structure
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reviewer FIN & specifier #39

Open stefan11 opened 5 years ago

stefan11 commented 5 years ago

p. 149 paragraph under (21): To avoid the problem, how about analyzing the verb in the FIN field as specifier (of V), thus finishing off the projection?

I do not understand this suggestion. Adverbs then would have to modify something that has something in the SPR list so that they are combined with the projection of the verb trace before the overt verb is combined with the rest.

But then the modification in VL clauses is unclear. The verb in a VL clause would not select a specifier and adjuncts could never combine with the respective projections.

Shall I add this in the text?

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