Annie Zaenen from Xerox PARC will spend some days in Saarbrücken.
She has kindly agreed to give a talk about her present work in
LFG syntax. If you would like to meet with her individually,
please get in contact with me at #email address not disclosed#. She will be here
from Monday to Wednesday.
Displaced Subjects: Equality and Inequality in LFG
Annie Zaenen
Xerox PARC
Monday, October 8, 14:15
CoLi Seminar Room, Building 17
A often made observation in traditional transformational
grammar is that 'more goes on upstairs than downstairs',
i.e. In constraint-based grammars this intuition has up
to now not been modeled except through specific phrase
structure rules. We propose a modelisation in LFG and
discuss it with French subject positions as an example.
We also show that in German grammar the device allows a
description of partial VP fronting.