Complement raising, extraction and adposition stranding in Dutch

AbstractInDutch, adpositionscanbestranded, typicallyiftheircomplementisan R -pronoun. The complement usually appears in the left part of the Mittelfeldor in the Vorfeld. In HPSG this is canonically modeled in terms of extraction,making use of nonlocal devices such as SLASH and BIND . This paper arguesthat the extraction analysis is indeed appropriate for cases in which the com-plement is realised in the Vorfeld, but proposes an alternative for the casesin which the complement is realised in the Mittelfeld. The new treatment isbased on argument inheritance, as complement raising in the Mittelfeld in-volvesamiddledistancedependencyratherthanalongdistancedependency. 1 Introduction In Dutch, adpositions canonically precede their complement.(1) Zeshezegtsaysdatthatzeshesomssometimesnogstill[aan[ofhem/Hans]him/Hans]denkt.thinks`She says that she still thinks of him/Hans from time to time.'(2) **Zeshezegtsaysdatthatzeshesomssometimesnogstill[hem/Hans[him/Hansaan]of]denkt.thinksHowever, if the complement is a demonstrative pronoun, such as dit `this' or dat`that', it takes another form, the so-called

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