Derivations and evaluations : object shift in the Germanic languages / by Hans Broekhuis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broekhuis, Hans.

Series:

Studies in generative grammar ; 97.

Studies in generative grammar ; 97

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germanic languages--Syntax.

Germanic languages.

Germanic languages--Grammar, Generative.

Germanic languages--Direct object.

Germanic languages--Indirect object.

Minimalist theory (Linguistics).

Optimality theory (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study shows that Scandinavian object shift and so-called A-scrambling in the continental Germanic languages are the same, and aims at providing an account of the variation that we find with respect to this phenomenon by combining certain aspects of the Minimalist Program and Optimality Theory. More specifically, it is claimed that representations created by a simplified version of the computational system of human language CHL are evaluated in an optimality theoretic fashion by taking recourse to a very small set of output constraints.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

Chapter 1 Derivations (MP) and Evaluations (OT)

Chapter 2 Short object shiftThis

Chapter 3 Regular object shift

Chapter 4 Object shift and other movement types

Chapter 5 Predicate movement

Chapter 6 Summary and conclusion

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612196775

9781282196773

1282196774

9783110207200

3110207206

OCLC:

476197006