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Record Nr.

UNINA9910518197403321

Autore

Freitag Constantin

Titolo

Verb-second as a reconstruction phenomenon : evidence from grammar and processing / / Constantin Freitag

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , [2021]

©2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 300 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studia grammatica ; ; 86

Disciplina

415.6

Soggetti

German language - Verb phrase

German language - Verb

Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb phrase

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-297) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- Part I: The grammatical perspective on V2-movement : 2. The Syntax of V2 -- 3. The V2-Reconstruction Hypothesis -- Part II: The role of V2-movement in sentence processing : 4. Basics of sentence processing -- 5. Processing of German clauses -- 6. Experimental investigations of the V2-Reconstruction Hypothesis -- 7. Peculiarities of processing V2-clauses -- 8. Grand summary and conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This investigation of V2-movement addresses the question which role the lexical content of the moved element plays during sentence processing. It draws on original theoretical arguments, empirical data and results from psycholinguistic experiments. The main finding is that the lexical content of the V2-verb is interpreted only at the end of the clause, i.e. at the base position of the finite verb.