Scandinavian Object Shift and Optimality Theory [electronic resource] /
Engels, E.author.
Vikner, S.author.
This book presents an account of object shift, a word order phenomenon found in most of the Scandinavian languages where an object occurs unexpectedly to the left and not to the right of a sentential adverbial. With new and original observations, it is an important addition to the fields of phonology, optimality theory and theoretical syntax.
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Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Diagrams; List of Figures; List of Tableaux; Acknowledgements; List of Language Abbreviations; Part I Object Shift; 1 Introduction; 2 Object Shift; 2.1 Object shift and Holmberg's generalisation; 2.2 Complexity: full DP shift vs pronoun shift; 2.3 Obligatoriness of object shift; 2.4 Case and object shift; 2.5 Object shift of adverbials; 2.6 Summary; 3 Optimality Theory; 3.1 Basic assumptions; 3.2 A non-linguistic example: the leap year rule; 3.3 Previous optimality-theoretical approaches to OS
3.3.1 The phonological analysis of Vogel (2006)3.3.2 The derivation-and-evaluation model of Broekhuis (2000, 2008); 3.3.3 The LFG-OT alignment analysis of Sells (2001); 4 An Optimality Theory Analysis of Object Shift; 4.1 Variation as to the complexity of the shifted object; 4.2 Variation as to the obligatoriness of OS; 4.3 Possible grammars; 4.4 OS of adverbials; 4.5 Holmberg's generalisation; 4.5.1 Holmberg's generalisation as order preservation; 4.5.2 Verb movement; 4.5.3 Double object constructions; 4.5.4 Particle verb constructions; 4.5.5 Let-constructions
4.5.6 Verbs with PP complements4.6 Excursus: West Germanic scrambling; 5 Conclusion; Part II Object Shift in Remnant VP-Topicalisation Constructions; 6 Introduction; 7 V°-Topicalisation vs Remnant VP-Topicalisation; 7.1 The V°-topicalisation approach of Holmberg (1997, 1999); 7.2 The remnant VP-topicalisation approach of Fox & Pesetsky (2003, 2005a,b); 8 Object Shift and Remnant VP-Topicalisation in Optimality Theory; 8.1 Remnant VP-topicalisation; 8.2 Stranding of a DO vs stranding of an IO; 8.3 Particle verb constructions in Danish vs Swedish; 8.4 Let-constructions in Danish vs Swedish
8.5 Excursus: OS is clause-bound8.6 Stranding of a subject vs stranding of an object; 8.7 Remnant VP-topicalisation out of a main vs an embedded clause; 9 Conclusion; Appendices; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book presents an account of object shift, a word order phenomenon found in most of the Scandinavian languages where an object occurs unexpectedly to the left and not to the right of a sentential adverbial. With new and original observations, it is an important addition to the fields of phonology, optimality theory and theoretical syntax.
Syntax.
Linguistic change.
Grammar.
Scandinavian languages.
Syntax.
Language Change.
Grammar.
Scandinavian.