Object- to Subject Raising or Lexical Rule - An HPSG Analysis of the German Passive

In this paper I develop a lexical rule based analysis for the passive in German in the paradigm of HPSG. Object-toSubject-Raising approaches will be discussed and it will be explained why a lexical rule based approach does not have their shortcomings. It will be shown that difficult cases of remote passive can be handled by such an analysis. 1 Object-to-Subject Raising In HPSG grammars for English and in LFG, the passive is analyzed as a lexical rule. For German many authors followed Haider (1986a) and analyzed the passive as object to subject raising (Heinz and Matiasek, 1994; Kathol, 1994; Lebeth, 1994; Pollard, 1994; M

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: KONVENS
• Authors: Stefan Müller 0006
• Keywords: Dative Passive, Jungen Boy-DAT Geschenkt, KONVENS 2000, Lexical Rule, Natural Language Processing