Type grammar meets German word order

Authors
Lambek, J
Citation
J. Lambek, Type grammar meets German word order, THEOR LING, 26(1-2), 2000, pp. 19-30
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Language & Linguistics
Journal title
THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS
ISSN journal
03014428 → ACNP
Volume
26
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
2000
Pages
19 - 30
Database
ISI
SICI code
0301-4428(2000)26:1-2<19:TGMGWO>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Reacting to a challenge by Michael Moortgat, this is an attempt to see whet her German word order can be analyzed by assigning types (here elements of a free pregroup) to individual German words, rather than by applying Chomsk ian transformations to parsing trees or by introducing Moortgat's modalitie s.