Overview

‘Scrambling’, the kind of word order variation found in West Germanic languages, has been commonly treated as a phenomenon completely unrelated to North Germanic ‘Object Shift’. This book questions this view and defends a unified analysis on the basis of strictly syntactic and phonological evidence. Given that its main conclusions are drawn from German data, it also sheds light on several problematic aspects of the grammar of this language, which have traditionally resisted a principled account. Prominent among these are: the inconsistent behaviour of German coherent infinitives with respect to extraction of their internal arguments; the existence of a less ‘liberal’ type of ‘Scrambling’ within topicalised VPs; the link between reordering possibilities and headfinalness; the asymmetry exhibited by monotransitive and ditransitive structures with respect to the interaction between ‘Scrambling’ and the unmarked word order, and, finally, certain anomalies in the reordering of the lower arguments of ditransitive predicates that assign inherent case.

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Author:   Gema Chocano (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   109
Weight:   0.755kg
ISBN:  

9789027233738

ISBN 10:   902723373
Pages:   333
Publication Date:   16 May 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. Chapter 1: Scrambling: A crosslinguistic perspective; 3. 1. Scrambling languages; 4. 2. Types of scrambling; 5. 3. Scrambling in the Germanic languages; 6. Chapter 2: A survey of some basic properties of German; 7. 1. The structure of the German clause; 8. 2. Coherent infinitival constructions; 9. 3. Remnant movement; 10. 4. The German pronominal system; 11. 5. Focus scrambling; 12. Chapter 3: Scrambling in German; 13. 1. German scrambling in rough syntax; 14. 1.1 The iterability of German scrambling; 15. 1.2 Scrambling within VP; 16. 1.3 Scrambling within other projections; 17. 1.4 Some preliminary conclusions about scrambable constituents; 18. 1.5 The clause-boundedness of scrambling and the syntactic position of scrambled constituents; 19. 1.6 'Island effects'; 20. 2. German scrambling at the interfaces; 21. 2.1 Phonological properties of scrambled elements; 22. 2.2 Semantic/pragmatic properties of scrambled elements; 23. 2.3 Tying the phonological and semantic/pragmatic constraints; 24. Chapter 4: Previous accounts of German scrambling; 25. 1. Movement approaches; 26. 1.1 Scrambling as 'move alpha' ('government and binding'); 27. 1.2 Scrambling as 'move' (the 'minimalist program'); 28. 2. Base-generation approaches; 29. 2.1 Base-generation, theta-role assignment, and case-checking at PF; 30. 2.2 Base-generation, theta-role assignment, and case-checking at LF; 31. 3. Conclusions; 32. Chapter 5: The phonological side of reordering processes; 33. 1. The phonological side of Scandinavian 'object shift'; 34. 1.1 Scandinavian 'object shift' from a descriptive perspective; 35. 1.2 Scandinavian 'object shift' in 'stylistic syntax'; 36. 1.3 Scandinavian 'object shift' in 'narrow syntax'; 37. 2. The phonological side of German scrambling; 38. 2.1 Evidence for DISL; 39. 2.2 Is German scrambling sensitive to 'phonological borders'?; 40. Chapter 6: Conclusions, problems, and pending issues; 41. Notes; 42. References; 43. Subject Index

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