Open AccessDie Präposition „auf” als Verkettungskomponente
Author(s) -
Anna Pilarski
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
acta universitatis wratislaviensis. studia linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0137-1169
DOI - 10.19195/0137-1169.40.5
Subject(s) - concatenation (mathematics) , computer science , linguistics , generative grammar , natural language processing , german , sentence , context (archaeology) , artificial intelligence , mathematics , arithmetic , philosophy , history , archaeology
The article presents the idea of examining the preposition auf ‘on’ from the generative perspective, in which the preposition is understood as an elementary unit of the mental lexicon (lexical array) without a syntactic category. The unit auf ‘on’ is treated as a phonological segment to which a corresponding syntactic category is assigned in the selected syntactic context. The syntactic processing system ensures the correct assignment through correct decoding from auf ‘on’ by concatenating various grammatical features with dierent functions and meanings. The article analyses the unit auf ‘on’ in terms of concatenation properties in the syntactic process of sentence generation in German.