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  <Title>German Particle Verbs and Pleonastic Prepositions</Title>
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5 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The aim of this paper is to explain the behaviour of German particle verbs formed by two-way prepositions and their ability to combine with pleonastic PPs. A classi cation of particle verbs based on semantic criteria was given, illustrating the restrictions imposed on their behaviour. It was shown that particle verbs occurring only with accusative PPs (Group A) always have a directional reading including the intrusion of the theme referent into a region speci ed by the relatum. Particle verbs which can not combine with an accusative PP (Group B) either have a static, nondirectional reading or describe a directed movement where the referent already may be present in the region speci ed by the relatum.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Syntactically this results in the fact that the accusative PP is able to saturate the argument OBL DIR subcategorized by the particle verbs in Group A. The dative PP functions as an adjunct (Group B). Here the verb particle saturates the directional OBL DIR argument required by the verb.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Group C verbs allow both accusative and dative PPs. Only particle verbs governing PPs in the accusative are pleonastic, but the PP either modi es or adds new information to the inherent argument structure of the particle verb and therefore is not suppressed by the verb particle.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Our formalisation describes the behaviour of particle verbs concerning their ability to licence pleonastic PPs. The semantic criteria restricting the behaviour of the particle verbs are embedded into the LFG representation and enable us to model the semantic differences on a syntactic level.</Paragraph>
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