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Kuthy, Kordula De; Meurers, Detmar

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“…12 Thanks to an anonymous reviewer for pointing this out. 13 While we cannot account for this observation it may be worth mentioning that it is well-known that the connection between nouns and their corresponding PP modifiers (e.g., Radford 1988;Keizer 2004) or their PP complements (e.g., Müller 1998;De Kuthy 1998;De Kuthy & Meurers 2001) is often not as close as often thought. Cf.…”

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Contrastive focus reduplication and the modification puzzle

Bross

Fraser

2020

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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In this short paper we present a so far unnoticed syntactic constraint on contrastive focus reduplication (CR), a phenomenon that restricts the semantics of the reduplicated element to a prototypical meaning (but has other uses as well): The CR construction cannot be modified. In the case of nominal CR, this means that adjectival modification is blocked, as in *black coffeecoffee. We present data from English and German to support our claim and highlight how earlier accounts fail to capture the syntactic restriction. We then provide a sketch of an analysis couched with a Cartographic framework, tentatively proposing that CR results either (i) from cyclical movement of phrasal material through the specifiers of functional projections into the specifier of a focus phrase or (ii) by directly moving phrasal material into the specifier of a focus phrase.

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Contrastive focus reduplication and the modification puzzle

Bross

Fraser

2020

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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The Blackwell Companion to Syntax

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Remnant Movement

Thiersch

2017

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition

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This chapter deals with incomplete category fronting, that is, with the appearance in a topic position of what seems to be a constituent lacking some of its parts, which appear elsewhere in the clause. There have been several approaches to these constructions: (1) extraction of the subpart to a position elsewhere in the clause and subsequent topicalization of the full constituent, which now contains a trace of the subpart (remnant movement); (2) base‐generating the subpart elsewhere and topicalizing the rest (without a trace of the subpart); (3) copying the full constituent to the “topic” position and deleting (different) parts of the two copies (distributed deletion). While I discuss (2) and (3) briefly, I concentrate on (1), hence the title of the chapter.

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Contrastive focus reduplication and the modification puzzle

Contrastive focus reduplication and the modification puzzle

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