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Verb Second—Predication or Unification?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Robin Cooper
Robin Cooper
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, Lund University, Helgonabacken 12, S-223 62, Lund, Sweden
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Abstract

This paper reports work in progress. It concerns the relationship in Germanic languages between the sentence initial constituent XP, and the rest of the sentence S, assuming a rule S → XP S. An informal proposal is presented, according to which that relationship is better characterized in terms of the notion of unification than that of predication. The author is currently working with Elisabet Engdahl on producing a precise grammar of some long distance dependency constructions which should be able to embody the ideas sketched here.

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Research Article
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , June 1986 , pp. 163 - 179
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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