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For a Headed Analysis of Free Relatives in German and English: The ‘Free Relative Economy Principle’
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On Postinitial Aber and Other Syntactic Transgressions: Some Considerations on the Nature of V2 in German
Full text linkAt least since the seminal works on the clause structure of German (Bierwisch 1963, Thiersch 1978, Den Besten 1983 in the generative framework; Drach 1963 and Höhle 1986 within the Topological Field Model), much attention has been devoted to cases of apparent violation of the strict Verb-Second (V2) word order that characterizes matrix but not embedded clauses in German. In particular, phenomena such as multiply-filled prefield (Müller 2003, 2005, 2013; Speyer 2008; Bildhauer 2011; Müller et al. 2012) and so-called postinitial adverbial connectors (Métrich & Courdier 1995, Pasch et al. 2003, Breindl 2008, Volodina & Weiß 2010) in main clauses have been discussed. In this paper, I propose a novel approach to the nature and formal status of V2 in German, showing that a slightly different postulation of its structural features solves the problem of finding ad-hoc solutions to each “deviant” phenomenon
Der seltsame Fall der weil-Sätze mit Verb-Zweit-Wortstellung im Deutschen: Zwischen Norm und Mündlichkeit an der Schnittstelle Syntax-Semantik-Pragmatik
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No full textIl presente lavoro si propone di investigare la natura e il ruolo del Verb-Second in frasi subordinate introdotte da un C esplicito o da un pronome relativo di tipo d- nel tedesco parlato contemporaneo. Data la complessità del fenomeno, risultante dall ́interazione di una componente sintattica “visibile” (la posizione del verbo finito nella frase) con altri moduli del linguaggio (in particolare semantica e pragmatica), e visto il considerevole numero di studi dedicati a questo tema - in particolare alla definizione delle funzioni strutturali del costrutto C-V2 - il mio lavoro si concentra soprattutto su tre questioni che la ricerca contemporanea non ha ancora risolto in modo soddisfacente: (i) la classificazione formale e la rappresentazione sintattica dei costrutti incassati con ordine V2 all ́interno del continuum della subordinazione; (ii) il problema della (non-)subordinabilità di atti linguistici indipendenti; (iii) la controversa questione della diacronia di questa struttura (in particolare la periodizzazione della nascita del fenomeno nei diversi tipi frasali presi in esame)
Wie viele Jungs haben Anna geküsst? Zum besonderen Status von V2-Relativsätzen im gesprochenen Deutsch
Full text linkThe aim of the present paper is twofold: first, to introduce the problem represented by socalled "Verb-Second (V2) relative clauses" in German, a phenomenon which occurs exclusively in spoken language, thereby recapitulating the arguments put forth in the literature for their paratactic categorization in light of Den Besten's (1983) assumptions on the structural properties of V2 (e.g. Gärtner 2001, 2002; Den Dikken 2005; Endriss/Gärtner 2005); in the second place, to propose an alternative analysis based on the following postulates: (i) such constructions, which are generally classified as belonging to "noncanonical" phenomena of spoken German, are neither to be ascribed to a deficient syntactic planning nor can they be defined as "false relatives" (cf. Ravetto 2006), but are rather part of a specific syntactic pattern with speaker-oriented implications that is directly related to the syntax-speaker's attitude interface; (ii) these structures display features shared by both asyndetically coordinated clauses (e.g. their word-order and, in principle, the surface form of the d-element introducing them) and standard relative constructions, but a paratactic analysis in classical terms (namely one in which it is assumed that clause1 and clause2 are two conjuncts of a coordinative pattern playing the same syntactic role) does not explain most of the distributional properties that "V2 relative clauses" exhibit. The conclusions of the analysis proposed in this paper rest upon evidence of prosodic, syntactic and semantic-pragmatic nature
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