Open AccessRaising doubts about Russian impersonals
Author(s) -
Jean-Pierre Koenig,
Anthony R. Davis
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2004.8
Subject(s) - raising (metalworking) , head driven phrase structure grammar , linguistics , grammar , phrase , computer science , natural language processing , mathematics , philosophy , geometry
The Russian data presented in Perlmutter and Moore (2002) seem tocall into question the standard analysis of raising within Head-driven PhraseStructure Grammar (HPSG): In Russian, the case marking of the raising target and raising pivot does not seem to be shared. In this paper, we show thatthe phenomena described by Perlmutter and Moore can receive another analysis, fully compatible with HPSG's theory of raising. We argue in additionthat our account leads to a slightly simpler model of the Russian data thanPerlmutter and Moore's. Crucially, our analysis is only available if we availourselves of a rich network of language-specific constructional schemata, astance recently advocated within HPSG, following the lead of ConstructionGrammar.