caa a22 4500 388114932 CHVBK 20180307125404.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1040820700002456 doi S1040820700002456 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1040820700002456 A Lexical-Functional Analysis of Predicate Topicalization in German [Elektronische Daten] In this paper we examine the topicalization paradigm for ten different verbal constructions in German. We argue that a uniform explanation for the observed behaviors follows from the interpretation of the relevant expressions as (parts of) lexical representations. To this end we motivate a revision of Functional Uncertainty as proposed in Kaplan and Zaenen 1989 to account for filler/gap relations in long-distance dependencies. We assume with the original formulation of this principle that topicalized elements share values with the (grammatical) function status of an entity an indeterminate distance away. We appeal to the inventory of functions posited within LEXICAL-FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR (LFG), inclusive of the frequently neglected PREDICATE function, which, we argue, is associated with both simple and complex predicates. In addition we show that topicalization, given this function-based proposal, should not be limited to maximal categories. We argue that the need to posit a PREDICATE function for German topicalization is supported by an independent line of research within LFG concerning the analysis of complex predicates. For this purpose we employ the proposals of T. Mohanan (1990/1994), which argue for the independence of the construct PREDICATE from its categorial realization. We show that this type of proposal extends to provide a uniform account of the German topicalization paradigm. This permits us to explain the similarities and differences in the behaviors of various sorts of predicators as well as certain idiomatic expressions interpreted as complex predicates. Copyright © Society for Germanic Linguistics 1999 Webelhuth Gert University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Linguistics CB # 3155 318 Dey Hall Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3155 [webelhuth@unc.edu] Ackerman Farrell University of California at San DiegoDepartment of Linguistics Mail Code 0108 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0108 [ackerman@ling.ucsd.edu] American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures Cambridge University Press 11/1(1999), 1-61 1040-8207 11:1<1 1999 11 JGL https://doi.org/10.1017/S1040820700002456 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1040820700002456 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Webelhuth Gert University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Linguistics CB # 3155 318 Dey Hall Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3155 [webelhuth@unc.edu] NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ackerman Farrell University of California at San DiegoDepartment of Linguistics Mail Code 0108 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0108 [ackerman@ling.ucsd.edu] NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures Cambridge University Press 11/1(1999), 1-61 1040-8207 11:1<1 1999 11 JGL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge