Cranberry Words in Formal Grammar

We will provide a formal account of cranberry words in German within the framework of HPSG. Cranberry words only occur in a very restr icted set of linguistic environments but behave as any other word would in th ese environments. We will show that the distribution of these words can neither be educed to constructions nor to selection. Therefore, a formal theory of distributio n and collocations will be necessary. We will begin work on developing such a theory.

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