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Book about German Sentence Structure
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r: rephrase sentence #40

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stefan11 commented 5 years ago

p. 152 I don't understand the last sentence before Section 6.7

The sentence is:

So either single verbs or arbitrarily complex coordinations of single verbs can be placed in initial position. As was explained in the footnote referenced above, this can be captured by a unary projection that relates single verbs or coordina- tions of single verbs to the properties that are required for elements in initial position. If one uses a single underspecified type for the description of lexical verbs that are supposed to be used either in initial or in final position, this will never extend to complex coordinations as the one in (24).

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