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Verb order and head movement

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Text Understanding in LILOG

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This paper will focus on the treatment of so-called verb movement phenomena within non-transformational approaches to grammar, namely Categorial Grammar (CG) and Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). We will discuss a number of recent proposals put forward by categorial grammarians, including one of the approaches taken within the LILOG project, which is a version of Categorial Unification Grammar (CUG). Subsequently, we will present a proposal for the treatment of finite verb positions in German within the framework of HPSG, which represents a further development of the original LILOG grammar and which can also be viewed as an extension to the theory of HPSG in general.

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Kiss, T., Wesche, B. (1991). Verb order and head movement. In: Herzog, O., Rollinger, CR. (eds) Text Understanding in LILOG. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 546. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54594-8_63

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