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URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8264
URL: http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/826/

Fanselow, Gisbert

Cyclic phonology-syntax-interaction : movement to first position in German

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This paper investigates the nature of the attraction of XPs to clauseinitial position in German (and other languages). It argues that there are two different types of preposing. First, an XP can move when it is attracted by an EPP-like feature of Comp. Comp can, however, also attract elements that bear the formal marker of some semantic or pragmatic (information theoretic) function. This second type of movement is driven by the attraction of a formal property of the moved element. It has often been misanalysed as “operator” movement in the past. Japanese wh-questions always exhibit focus intonation (FI). Furthermore, the domain of FI exhibits a correspondence to the wh-scope. I propose that this phonology-semantics correspondence is a result of the cyclic computation of FI, which is explained under the notion of Multiple Spell-Out in the recent Minimalist framework. The proposed analysis makes two predictions: (1) embedding of an FI into another is possible; (2) (overt) movement of a wh-phrase to a phase edge position causes a mismatch between FI and wh-scope. Both predictions are tested experimentally, and shown to be borne out.

Freie Schlagwörter (Englisch): topicalization , focus movement , operator movement , A-bar-movement

RVK - Regensburger Verbundklassifikation: ER 300

Collection: Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632, ISSN 1866-4725 / ISIS (2004) 01

Institut: Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

DDC-Sachgruppe: Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik

Dokumentart: b Aufsatz

ISBN: 1866-4725

Quelle: Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632. - Vol. 1

Sprache: Englisch

Erstellungsjahr: 2004

Publikationsdatum: 07.09.2006

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Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; Working papers of the SFB 632. - Potsdam : Univ.-Verl., 2004. - (ISIS ; 1)
URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8237

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