In this paper, we present an analysis of so-called determinerless PPs in German, i.e. prepositional phrases that allow singular count nouns to occur without an accompanying determiner, despite other rules in the grammar requiring the presence of the determiner. The analysis is based on annotated corpus data, which are fed into a statistical classifier (applying logistic regression). Superficially, the syntax of bare prepositional phrases is difficult to capture, and intuitions cannot be easily elicited. The analysis is based on data sets for two pairs of German prepositions:mit‘with’ andohne‘without’, andüber‘over, above’ andunter‘under, below’. The results of the classifiers applied to annotated data indicate which syntactic, morphological and semantic features are responsible for determiner omission. We are able to detect common properties of all four prepositions, as well as preposition-specific, and idiosyncratic properties. The apparently unsystematic conditions for determiner omission can be discerned by tracing the interaction of these properties.

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德语介词短语中的限定词省略

在本文中，我们分析了德语中所谓的无限定词，即介词短语允许单数可数名词出现而没有伴随的限定词，尽管语法中的其他规则需要限定词的存在。分析基于带注释的语料库数据，这些数据被输入统计分类器（应用逻辑回归）。从表面上看，纯介词短语的句法难以捕捉，直觉也不易引出。该分析基于两对德语介词的数据集：麻省理工学院'与' 和欧内'没有'，和超级“以上，以上”和下'根据下文'。应用于注释数据的分类器的结果表明哪些句法、形态和语义特征是造成确定者遗漏的原因。我们能够检测所有四个介词的共同属性，以及介词特定的和特殊的属性。可以通过追踪这些属性的相互作用来辨别限定词省略的明显不系统的条件。