Dutch cross serial dependencies in HPSG

Gerrit Rentier · 1994

We present an analysis of Dutch cross serial dependencies in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar ([P&S(1994)]). We start out from the assumption that causative and perceptual verbs, like auxiliaries, can lexically 'raise' the arguments of the non-finite verbs they govern to their own list of arguments through "argument composition" ([H&N(1989)]).

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