Yet Another Paper about Partial Verb Phrase Fronting in German

During the last years, several different analyses for partial verb phrase fronting have been proposed (Pollard, 1996; Nerbonne, 1994; Baker, 1994; Hinrichs and Nakazawa, 1994). The most promising account so far has been the one of Hinrichs and Nakazawa. This account, however, suffers from some drawbacks that will be discussed in section 4. I will present a rather simple account that uses the standard nonloc mechanism HPSG (Pollard and Sag, 1994) provides. In section 3.3, I will discuss a problem that arises for all accounts of partial verb phrase fronting: underspecified comps lists. By the means of a new daughter (licensing daughter) in a schema for the introduction of nonlocal dependencies this problem will be solved.