Comp in Bavarian Syntax

Complementizer Agreement

“…(De Haan 1997, 51) There are also dialects with a more elaborate agreement system. Bayer (1984) shows that Bavarian has CA for the second person singular and plural. The same holds for several Eastern Dutch dialects (see Barbiers et al 2005, 221).…”

“…Finally, CA is also found on the complementizer in comparative clauses. Bayer (1984) and Fuß (2008) report that CA in Bavarian is only possible in clausal comparatives, but not in phrasal ones, see the data in (8). (8) (Bayer 1984, 269) A subset of the Dutch dialects with CA does allow CA with phrasal comparatives; see (9), see Cremers and Van Koppen (2008), and Barbiers et al (2005, 36) for a map showing the exact distribution of this pattern.…”

Asymmetry in Emphatic Topicalization

“…Wh-questions and relative clauses are generally formed by moving the wh-phrase or the relative operator to the specifier of an overt complementizer. The examples in (1) and (2) from Bayer (1984) illustrate the construction:…”

“…In Bayer (1984) the phrase structure of these constructions was represented in the S, S', S'' system, and it was assumed that there are two complementizers, one of which (COMP2) hosts the operator while the other (COMP1) is filled with the complementizer. The shortcomings of this analysis are easily avoided under the phrase structure which Chomsky (1986a) suggests in Barriers.…”

“…Since Bavarian does not respect the DFCF, it is not surprising to see that movement to SpecCP is not confined to wh-and relativization operators. 1 Consider the following examples, of which (3a,b) are from Bayer (1984), (3c) is from Weiß (1998) and (3d) is a datum from a corpus which is reported in Lutz (1997):…”