An Analysis of Depictive Secondary Predicates in German without Discontinuous Constituents

In Müller, To Appear 2005b I provide evidence that suggests that linearization approaches or approaches that assume flat structures cannot account for the German clause structure in an insightful way. Analyses that make use of discontinuous constituents should therefore be revised. In this paper I develop an analysis of German depictive secondary predicates that differs from the one suggested in Müller, 2002 by assuming binary branching structures, verb movment, and continuous constituents instead of a linearization approach. Some shortcomings of previous analyses are pointed out and it is shown how linearization constraints regarding depictive predicate and antecedent can be modeled.