Robert Levine and Detmar Meurers: Locality of Grammatical Relations

Summer School on Constraint-based Grammar, Trondheim, Norway, 6.-11. August 2001

Slides of lectures (in pdf format)

• Introduction
• Syntactic properties
  • Tag questions and the Richard phenomenon (Bender/Flickinger)
  • Complementizer agreement in Eastern Dutch dialects, Gapless relative clauses in German, and English for-to infinitives (Höhle)
  • Apparently non-local case assignment and agreement in German (Meurers)
  • Raising across prepositions and Case agreement with numeral phrases in Polish (Przepiorkowski)

• Semantic properties
  • English purpose infinitives (Baxter/Johnston)
  • English tough counstructions (Levine)
  • Quantifier scope in German (Kiss)