Asymmetry in Emphatic Topicalization

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“…Kenesei 1994, 304). Inspired by Bayer (2001), who analyzes related phenomena in Bavarian, we would like to suggest that certain clause types license a marked extension of ForceP by a topic projection we will call XTopP hosting "exceptional topics". One of the constraints on this projection in Hungarian derives from the interesting fact that XTopP is not an attachment site for sentence adverbials.…”

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Pragmatic markers in Hungarian: Some introductory remarks

Gärtner¹,

Gyuris²

2012

Acta Linguistica Hungarica

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The purpose of these introductory remarks is to complement the following case studies by Ferenc Kiefer on majd 'later (on), sooner or later', Attila Péteri on hadd 'let', and Ildikó Vaskó on persze 'of course'. What we will do is sketch a number of what we consider promising theoretical developments that have a bearing on the issues raised in these studies. In a section addressing issues of form (section 2), we discuss "cartographic" approaches to adverb(ial) hierarchies and the clausal "left periphery", as well as pragmatic markers within clause types. In a section focusing on issues of interpretation (section 3), we deal with pragmatic markers from the perspective of "projective meaning" and "conversational moves".

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Section: The Left Peripherymentioning

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Pragmatic markers in Hungarian: Some introductory remarks

Gärtner¹,

Gyuris²

2012

Acta Linguistica Hungarica

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“…From the point of view of truncation, the answers to such questions are usually assumed to be related to the availability of illocutionary force (see Bayer 2001, Krifka 2001, and Haegeman 2003, or to discourse related features (see Bianchi and Frascarelli 2010), but the degree to which such concepts are syntactically encoded has not yet been fully formalized and raises a number of problems of implementation that are far from trivial (see Heycock 2006, Authier 2013, and Haegeman 2012a. In contrast, the intervention approach attributes the parametric variation observed in the availability of left peripheral positions to the variation in intervention effects.…”

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French adverbial clauses, rescue by ellipsis and the truncation versus intervention debate

Authier

Haegeman

2015

Probus

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This paper investigates the restrictions on movement to the left periphery found in non-root environments such as French central adverbial clauses and argues that an analysis of main clause phenomena based on intervention/Relativized Minimality is to be preferred to one based on structural truncation. The empirical basis for this claim consists of an examination of some asymmetries between French infinitival TP ellipsis and infinitival TP Topicalization. Adopting Authier"s (2011) approach to TP ellipsis whereby the to-be-elided TP undergoes fronting in the computational component but fails to be spelled out at PF, we argue that these asymmetries follow from the fact that in French, while a spelled out fronted TP is an intervener for wh-movement in adverbial clauses, leading to a PF crash, the ellipsis of this fronted TP leads to a convergent derivation via Bošković"s (2011) mechanism of "rescue by PF deletion." This account entails that adverbial clauses involve wh-1 We gratefully acknowledge the comments and suggestions made by two anonymous Probus reviewers and Jairo Nunes on a previous draft of this article. We also wish to

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“…Bayer (2001). As the name suggests, it is impossible to move phrases which cannot bear emphatic or potentially contrastive stress.…”

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That-trace effects and resumption – How Improper Movement can be repaired

Bayer¹,

Salzmann²

2013

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OutlineThe ungrammaticality that can be observed in subject extraction from that-clauses in English, known as the that-trace effect, has attracted much attention in generative grammar. Until today, most of the writing takes it for granted that the effect is directly connected to the placement or the role of the subject. In this article we will show that this is likely to be wrong. We will show on the basis of data from German that the that-trace effect emerges as the result of TOPIC EXTRACTION via the specifier of the complementizer that (SpecCP). Since subjects are very likely to serve as topics, and the grammar of English does not allow much variation in using other constituents as topics, it is understandable that the that-trace effect was taken to be a subject effect. The gist of our explanation of the that-trace effect is that constituents which have been moved to the topic position, more precisely to the position of an aboutness-topic, do not have a feature for contrastiveness, and that precisely such a feature is needed in long extraction to value a subfeature of the intermediate complementizer. 1 This requirement allows essentially only constituents from the rhematic part of the clause to move long distance.The article is organized as follows: Section 2 gives a short description of that-trace effects in English and comments on some more recent approaches. Section 3 turns to similar effects in German, pointing to means of circumventing the violation which are offered by the grammar of German. In this section it will be established that it is topic movement and not subject movement which gives rise to the observed violation. Making use of a feature of contrastivity, section 4 identifies the violation as related to what in previous research was seen as IMPROPER MOVEMENT. In section 5 the notorious problem of long extraction from zero-complementizer clauses will be addressed. Extending work that has been done on German, it will be argued there that also in English the construction is better analyzed as involving parenthetical insertion. In other words, what has been taken to be long subject extraction across a zero complementizer is in all likelihood short extraction into which a special parenthetical has been inserted. 2 In section 6 we shift from the discussion of English and Standard German to a discussion of Zurich German relative clauses. Relative clauses in this dialect are of particular interest because they show a split between movement and resumption. Subjects and direct objects move and leave a trace whereas indirect objects and PP-objects etc. rely on resumption. Interestingly, this picture changes as soon as we are dealing with long relativization. In the latter case, even subject and direct object submit to resumption. On the basis of the extraction theory developed that far, this change receives a natural explanation, the reason being that the relative operator -unlike the wh-operator in questions -cannot value the contrast-feature in comp. The result is repair by means of resumption. It will...

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Asymmetry in Emphatic Topicalization

Cited by 78 publications

References 7 publications

Pragmatic markers in Hungarian: Some introductory remarks

Pragmatic markers in Hungarian: Some introductory remarks

French adverbial clauses, rescue by ellipsis and the truncation versus intervention debate

That-trace effects and resumption – How Improper Movement can be repaired

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