Cranberry Words in Formal Grammar

We will provide a formal account of cranberry words in German within the framework of HPSG. Cranberry words only occur in a very restricted set of linguistic environments but behave as any other word would in these environments. We will show that the distribution of these words can neither be reduced to constructions nor to selection. Therefore, a formal theory of distribution and collocations will be necessary. We will begin work on developing such a theory.