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@article{item_3396932,
title = {{Extraction from NP, frequency, and minimalist gradient harmonic grammar}},
author = {M{\"u}ller, Gereon and Englisch, Johannes and Opitz, Andreas},
language = {eng},
issn = {1613-396X; 0024-3949},
doi = {10.1515/ling-2020-0049},
publisher = {De Gruyter},
year = {2022},
date = {2022},
abstract = {{Extraction of a PP from an NP in German is possible only if the head{\textless}br{\textgreater}noun and the governing verb together form a natural predicate. We show that this{\textless}br{\textgreater}corresponds to collocational frequency of the verb-noun combinations in{\textless}br{\textgreater}corpora, based on the metric of $\Delta$P. From this we conclude that frequency should{\textless}br{\textgreater}be conceived of as a language-external grammatical building block that can{\textless}br{\textgreater}directly interact with language-internal grammatical building blocks (like trig-{\textless}br{\textgreater}gers for movement and economy constraints blocking movement) in excitatory{\textless}br{\textgreater}and inhibitory ways. Integrating frequency directly into the syntax is not an{\textless}br{\textgreater}option in most current grammatical theories. However, things are different in{\textless}br{\textgreater}Gradient Harmonic Grammar, a version of Optimality Theory where linguistic objects{\textless}br{\textgreater}of various kinds can be assigned strength in the form of numerical values (weights).{\textless}br{\textgreater}We show that by combining a Minimalist approach to syntactic derivations with a{\textless}br{\textgreater}Gradient Harmonic Grammar approach of constraint evaluation, the role of fre-{\textless}br{\textgreater}quency in licensing extraction from PP in German can be integrated straightfor-{\textless}br{\textgreater}wardly, the only additional prerequisite being that (verb-noun) dependencies qualify{\textless}br{\textgreater}as linguistic objects that can be assigned strength (based on their frequency).}},
journal = {{Linguistics}},
volume = {60},
number = {5},
pages = {1619--1662},
}