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Überzeugungs- und Überredungsmittel in der Realisierung mündlicher Aufforderungsakte um deutsch-italienischen Sprachvergleich
No full textEconomy Conditions and Coreference: from minimal pronouns to referential acts. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 92, 1 - 35. Center of Language and Literature, Lund University, ISSN: 1100-097x
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Scrambling, Remnant Movement, and Restructuring in West Germanic
No full textThis book provides a comprehensive study of three salient phenomena of the West Germanic language group, namely scrambling, remnant movement, and restructuring, and the discussion of their interrelatedness. It shows that scrambling cannot be taken to create the remnant categories necessary for VP-topicalization and the formation of verb clusters in restructuring infinites. Instead, it argues that remnant categories are created by licensing movement and that restructuring involves remnant movement of large portions of the infinitival clause
Prominence, Accent and Information Structure
Get PDFThe paper discusses the tenets of the complex interaction between syntax, prosody and information structure in German. A prominence-based approach to the interface is proposed in an account that crucially extends the object of syntax from the sentence level to the discourse level. The latter move allows to reconcile formal approaches and functional approaches to grammar and solves an old problem posed by the parallel impact of information structural categories on the phonological and semantic interpretation of the clause in generative grammar
Decomposing V2
Get PDFThe paper outlines a new approach to the phenomenon of Verb Second (V2) in West Germanic that does better justice to the historical facts and also accounts for the variation between V2 and V3 orders in modern varieties like Kiezdeutsch and West Flemish. The account proposes a decomposition of the V2 rule, the core of which consists of (i) the Phase Condition, a lexicalization requirement on the phase head, and (ii) an interface condition that fixes the phase head in languages that allow for a flexible phase edge
Predicate Doubling and VP-topicalisation in German
Get PDFThe paper discusses several aspects of VP-remnant topicalization. It argues that the VP is vacuated by licensing movement of VP-internal material and provides arguments against an analysis in terms of distributed deletion
Collapsing the Head Final Filter and the Head Complement Parameter: Venice Working Papers in Linguistics, Università Ca Foscari, Dipartimento di studi linguistici e culturali comparati, ISSN: 2037-7940.
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