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1、in:Trost,H.(1994):KONVENS'94.2.KonferenzVerarbeitungnaturlicherSprache",Wien,28.{30.9.1994,Springer-Verlag,Berlin,121{130.VerbSecondbyUnderspecificationAnetteFrankInstituteforComputationalLinguisticsUniversityofStuttgartAzenbergstr.1270174Stuttgarte-mail:anette@ims.uni-stuttgart.deThepaper
2、presentsanHPSGanalysisofVerbSecond(V2)inGermanbyunderspecication,makinguseofacategorialtypehierarchy.WebeginbydiscussingsomeshortcomingsoftheHPSGanalysisofV2bylexicalruleinKiss/Wesche(1991),whichcanberemediedbyintegrationoftheconceptoffunctionalcategories,originallyintroducedinHPSGbyNetter(
3、1994).Basedontheseinsights,andlargelyinspiredbytheGBanalysisofHaider(1993),wedevelopanalternativeanalysisofV2inHPSG,whichisbasedontheconceptofunderspecication.Theniteverbisrepresentedinthelexiconasanabstractcategorytypewhichisunderspeciedforfunctionalandcomplementationproperties.Inconjunc
4、tionwiththetypehierarchy,thesepropertiesgetappropriatelydeneddependingontheactualsyntacticcontexttheverbappearsin.WeendupwithananalysisoftheV2dependencyrelationwhichrestrictstheinformationstructuresharedbyantecedentandtraceto(enriched)HEADattributes,asopposedtoLOCALattributesforphrasalconst
5、ituents.ThisaccountsforthelocalityoftheV2dependency.Theanalysisbyunderspecicationmakesinterestingpredictionsfortheinterdependenceofsyntacticandsemanticproperties.ThisismosttransparentfortheungrammaticalityofV2inembeddedwh-clauses.IntroductionAcentralconcernintheareaofcomputationalsyntaxisto
6、exploitinsightsgainedinsyntactictheory.AnenormousamountofvaluableworkonsyntaxhasbeendoneintheGBframework,andeortsaremadetocomeupwithformalizationsandparsingsystemsthatdirectlytransferGBanalysestoworkingcomputationalsystems(forarecentoverviewsee[Sta]).Withoutgoingintoadiscussionaboutthisline
7、ofresearch,thispaperproposesanalternativewaytothesameend:makingavailableinsightsaboutnaturallanguagesyntax,gainede.g.inGBtheory,tocomputationalapplications.Fortheintricateproblemoftheverbsecond(V2)phenomenoninGerman,itwillbeshownthattheGBanalysisco