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Record Nr.

UNISA996445847603316

Autore

Freitag Constantin

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-11-072501-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXII, 300 p.)

Collana

Studia grammatica , , 0081-6469 ; ; 86

Disciplina

415.6

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Open-Access-Transformation in Linguistics -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index

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.