Solving the bracketing paradox - German Grammar Group FU Berlin

ST. MÜLLER
from bonne to bon, and the fact that something is deleted is encoded in this
mapping.
A morpheme-based analysis of German nominalizations can be found, for
instance, in Bierwisch (1989). Bierwisch uses an abstract morpheme /Ablaut/.
If a stem is combined with this morpheme, the result is an object with an
appropriately modified phonology.
In order to avoid zero morphemes and subtractive morphemes, I propose
a lexical rule-based analysis in what follows.
5.1 Inflection
The lexical rule in (43) is used to derive inflected lexical items from items that
are listed in the lexicon or that have been derived by other lexical rules that
map uninflected lexical items to other uninflected lexical items. Thus, it can
be used to derive fährst from various forms of fahr- ‘to drive’. One entry
for fahr- is the one listed. Another is derived by the rule for productive
particle verb combinations (see (39) above), and can be used in sentences like
Er fährt los ‘he starts to drive’.
(43) Lexical rule for the 2nd person singular, present
⎡
⎤
PHON f( 1 ,〈 st 〉)
⎡ ⎡ ⎡ [ ] ⎤⎤⎤
⎢
CAT ⎣ HEAD VFORM fin
verb
⎥
⎦
SYNSEM
LOC
SUBCAT 2
⎢ ⎢ [ ]
⎣ ⎣ SOA 3
⎥
⎥
⎦
CONT
⎦
present
⎡
⎤
PHON 1
⎡ [ ] ⎤
HEAD verb
LEX-DTR
⎢
SYNSEM|LOC
⎣ CAT SUBCAT 2 ( 〈 〉 NP[str] 2,sg ⊕ )
⎥
⎦
⎢
⎣
CONT 3
⎥
⎦
⎢
⎣
stem
⎥
⎦
2nd-inflected-verb
This lexical rule produces a finite form from the stem that may be basic or
derived. The function f combines the phonological representation of the rule
input (1) with the ending -st. The function may add, delete or change
phonological material if necessary. For instance, the combination of red- and
-st is redest ‘talk (2nd sg.)’. The VFORM value is instantiated appropriately
and the uninflected stem is required to have a subject, i.e. an NP[str] as its
first element in the SUBCAT list. (The remainder of the list is not important, as
indicated by the empty box.) The NP[str] is constrained to be second person
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