Sayatz, Ulrike & Roland Schäfer. 2025. Desintegration attributiver Adjektivphrasen. In Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft (angenommen).
Abstract
This paper examines graphemic ways of marking constituents as syntactically non-integrated despite a strong default reading as fully integrated. Specifically, we look at canonically positioned pre-nominal APs in German which can be marked as non-integrated through punctuation marks such as commas, dashes, and parentheses (as well as prosodically though pauses and intonation curves). We present evidence (from an elicitation experiment and a large-scale corpus study) for influencing factors triggering the use of the aforementioned punctuation marks as well as for their functional differentiation. The paper is written from the perspective of Probabilistic Graphemics, a production-oriented framework dedicated to decoding the mapping of grammatical categories onto graphemic usage, which is derived from usage-based approaches.