Constraintbasierte Analyse von Relativsätzen im Englischen und Deutschen

CON致力于在中心语驱动的短语结构语法(HPSG)框架内对英语和德语中的关系从句进行基于约束的分析。该项目试图通过对现有建议的理论评估综合来解决关系从句分析中的公开问题。HPSG允许整合其他理论的概念，并对句法和语义要求的相互作用进行精确的建模，因为它们在关系从句的经验领域是必不可少的。在第一个资助期，限制关系从句的修饰理论在经验和概念上显示出比提升理论或匹配理论更成功。对于关于成语和关系从句的数据，乍一看，这似乎是修饰性理论的问题，我们能够对经验事实有一个更有区别的图景，并勾勒出一种面向语义的、基于修饰性理论的分析。关于成语、约束性和范围的数据的语义方法将在第二阶段进一步探索(如延续、无限制的贝塔缩减、不足规范)，它们将与第一阶段的句法分析相结合。本文将把分析范围扩展到非限制性关系从句，重点分析上述现象。实证研究将有助于厘清实证基础。

CON strives for a constraint-based analysis of relative clauses in English and German within the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). The project attempts to solve open problems in the analysis of relative clauses by a theory-evaluating synthesis of existing proposals. HPSG permits the integration of concepts from other theories as well as a precise modeling of the interaction of syntactic and semantic requirements, as they are essential in the empirical domain of relative clauses.During the first funding period the modification theory of restrictive relative clauses showed itself to be empirically and conceptually more successful than a raising theory or a matching theory. For data on idioms and binding in relative clauses, which, at first sight, seem problematic for a modification theory, we were able to gain a more differentiated picture of the empirical facts and to sketch an analysis that is semantically oriented and based on a modification theory.Semantic approaches to data on idioms, binding, and scope will be further pursued in the second phase (such as Continuations, unrestrained beta-reduction, underspecification) and they will be integrated with the syntactic analysis of the first phase. The analysis will be extended to nonrestrictive relative clauses, focusing on the above-named phenomena. Empirical studies will help to clarify the empirical basis.