Extraction from NP, frequency, and minimalist gradient harmonic grammar

Extraction of a PP from an NP in German is possible only if the head noun and the governing verb together form a natural predicate. We show that this corresponds to collocational frequency of the verb-noun combinations in corpora, based on the metric of ΔP. From this we conclude that frequency shoul...

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Main Authors: Müller Gereon, Englisch Johannes, Opitz Andreas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2022-09-01
Series:Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0049