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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Syncretism in German: A unified approach to underspecification, indeterminacy, and likeness of case
Contributor:
Crysmann, Berthold
Published:
University Library J. C. Senckenberg, 2005
Published in:
Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (2005)
Language:
Not determined
DOI:
10.21248/hpsg.2005.5
ISSN:
1535-1793
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
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In this paper I address the phenomenon of syncretism in German and
show how Flickinger (2000)'s approach to related issues in English can be
adapted to provide a compact, disjunction-free representation of German
nominal paradigms by means of combined case/number/gender type hierarchies.
In particular, I will discuss the issue of case identity constraints in
German coordinate structures, which has so far prevented successful application
of Flickinger's proposal to German, and show how likeness constraints
targetting individual inflectional dimensions of a combined type hierarchy
can be expressed by means of typed lists that abstract out the relevant dimension.
I further show that current type-based approaches to feature neutrality
are unable to combine the treatment of this phenomenon with the virtues of
underspecification. I will then propose a revised organisation of the
inflectional type hierarchies suggested by Daniels (2001), drawing on a systematic
distinction between inherent and external (case) requirements.</jats:p>