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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818255703321

Autore

Broekhuis Hans

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008

ISBN

1-282-19677-4

9786612196775

3-11-020720-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (396 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in generative grammar ; ; 97

Classificazione

ET 690

Disciplina

430.045

Soggetti

Germanic languages - Syntax

Germanic languages - Grammar, Generative

Germanic languages - Direct object

Germanic languages - Indirect object

Minimalist theory (Linguistics)

Optimality theory (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.