Pp-Extraktionen - Eine Untersuchung Zum Verhaltnis Von Grammatik Und Pragmatik (German, Electronic book text)

This study pursues two objectives, a) to describe the distribution of the extraction of prepositional attributes, and b) to propose a theory explaining it. The description of the phenomenon indicates that, though it is primarily governed by grammatical principles, it is also influenced by contextual - and hence pragmatic - factors. In the framework of Optimality Theory a successful attempt is made to capture these apparently irreconcilable factors in a unified model. The study thus contributes to a better understanding of the interaction between grammatical and pragmatic principles.