Sabel / Saito The Free Word Order Phenomenon

Its Syntactic Sources and Diversity
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019726-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 69, 382 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]ISSN

This book deals with the syntax of the free word order phenomenon (scrambling) in a wide range of languages - in particular, German, Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Serbo-Croatian, Tagalog, Tongan, and Turkish - in some of which the phenomenon was previously unstudied. In the past, the syntax of free word order phenomena has been studied intensively with respect to its A- and A'-movement properties and in connection with its semantic (undoing) effects. The different articles in this volume offer new ways of analyzing free word order under (i) minimalist assumptions, (ii) concerning the typology of scrambling languages, (iii) with respect to the question of how it is acquired by children, (iv) in connection with its relatedness to information structural factors, and (v) with respect to its consequences for a highly elaborated sentence structure of the IP/VP domain.

The articles that focus mainly on the emprical aspects of free word order phenomena deal with the properties and proper analysis of rightwards scrambling in Turkish, with the A-/A'-nature and triggers for VSO-VOS alternations in Tongan, as well as with left-branch extractions and NP-Split in Slavic and its consequences for a typology of scrambling languages. The articles that focus on theoretical aspects of scrambling deal with questions concerning the motivatation of a derivation with scrambling in a free word order language, such as whether scrambling has to be analyzed as topicalization or focus movement. Or assuming that scrambling is feature-driven, how the technical details of this analysis are implemented in the grammar to avoid unwarranted derivations, for example, derivations with string-vacuous scrambling. A further important question that is addressed is when scrambling is acquired in the development of the grammar, and what the consequences are for the timing of the acquisition of A- and A'-movement properties.

This volume will be most relevant to researchers and advanced students interested in generative syntax, as well as typologists working on German, Japanese, Slavic, Turkish, Dravidian and Austronesian languages.

We regret that due to a layout error the title of Miyagawa's article on "EPP and semantically vacuous scrambling" is misrepresented in the printed version of the book. You can download the article with the corrected title here.

Zielgruppe

Researchers, Libraries and Advanced Students of Linguistics and L

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sabel, Joachim

Saito, Mamoru

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;5
3;Introduction;7
4;Left branch extraction, structure of NP, and scrambling;19
5;The discourse configurationality of scrambling;81
6;Scrambling in the cleft construction in Dravidian;143
7;Asymmetries between pre-verbal and post-verbal scrambling in Turkish;169
8;EPP and semantically cacuous scrambling;187
9;On the acquisition of scrambling in Japanese;227
10;Scrambling and information focus: VSO-VOS alternation in Tongan;249
11;String-vacuous scrambling and the Effect on Output Condition;287
12;Further notes on the interpretation of scrambling chains;341
13;Backmatter;383

Über Autor(innen)

Sabel, Joachim
Joachim Sabel is Professor of German Linguistics at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

Saito, Mamoru
Mamoru Saito is Professor of Linguistics at Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan.