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  <Title>Licensing Complex Prepositions via Lexical Constraints</Title>
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6 Summary and Outlook
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, syntactic aspects of CPs in German have been investigated. We have thereby seen that the previous approaches to this phenomenon are highly problematic. We then proposed an HPSG analysis based on the raising mechanism assuming prepositions to be able to raise complements of their arguments. Underspecifying valence information within lexical entries of prepositions and applying appropriate lexical constraints, the presented theory offers a non-redundant description of linguistic facts about both the raising and non-raising prepositions.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The proposed analysis entails a technique which is already well established in the HPSG-based studies. We have shown for instance that there are parallels between the raising analysis proposed here for CPs and the raising analysis of German verbal complexes as proposed in (Hinrichs and Nakazawa,  In processing systems, an implementation of the idea of raising as presented and formalized in Section Four has already proved to be computationally tractable. For instance, there is a large grammar fragment of German developed at the Seminar fur Sprachwissenschaft at the University of Tubingen, that has been exhaustively implemented by using a new grammar implementation software TRALE.6 The fragment includes among other phenomena the  mars that was created within the framework of the B8 project Ein HPSG-Syntaxfragment fur das Deutsche: Sprachtheoretische Grundlagen und Computerlinguistische Implementierung and Domain Specific Processing of Constraint-Based Grammars of the SFB 340 Sprachtheoretische Grundlagen fur die Computerlinguistik under direction of Gerald Penn and has been still developed within the framework of the MiLCA-Consortium at the Seminar fur Sprachwissenschaft in Tubingen. partial fronting theory of (De Kuthy and Meurers, 2001), that is based on the idea of raising. Testing and evaluating this analysis using the TRALE system has provided satisfactory results.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> It has to be emphasized that the theory presented in this paper focuses on syntactic aspects of CPs, dealing with problems of constituency and lexical and syntactical selection within P a0 N a0 Pa1 NP sequences. However, a further module should also be elaborated that account for generalizations about semantic aspects.</Paragraph>
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