@inproceedings{Trawiński2017, author = {Beata Trawiński}, title = {The Syntax of “Complex Prepositions” in German: An HPSG Approach}, series = {Proceedings of the GLiP-5 Conference. Generative Linguistics in Poland: Morphosyntactic Investigations. Warsaw, Poland. 30 November - 1 December 2002}, editor = {Piotr Bański and Adam Przepi{\´o}rkowski}, publisher = {Instytut Podstaw Informatyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk}, address = {Warsaw}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-57904}, pages = {155 -- 166}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Many modern languages commonly use expressions that seem unpredictable regarding standard grammar regularities. Among these expressions, sequences consisting of a preposition, a noun, another preposition, and another noun are particularly frequent. The issue of these expressions, usually termed in linguistic literature as \"complex prepositions\", \"phrasal prepositions\" or \"preposition-like word formations\", can certainly be considered to be a cross-linguistic problem (On \"complex prepositions\" in German and in other languages see (Benes 1974), (Buscha 1984)}, (Lindqvist 1994), (Meibauer 1995), (Quirk and Mulholland 1964), (Wollmann 1996). In this paper, I will focus exclusively on German data, because they provide very explicit and convincing linguistic evidence which motivates and supports my approach. However, I assert that the analysis proposed here for German can also be applied to other languages such as Polish or English.}, language = {en} }