Concealed pseudo-clefts

Paul, Ileana

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“…In section 3.1 I present Sabel's (2002Sabel's ( , 2003 fronting analysis of wh-questions. Section 3.2 develops the non-movement pseudocleft analysis based on Paul (2001a). Only the latter analysis is compatible with the CTH and I will ultimately argue for its correctness.…”

Section: Two Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Instead, the voice system is used to make the to-be-questioned argument a subject, as in (17). (18) An exception to this generalization is that some adjuncts, including temporal and locative adverbials, can be questioned without first advancing to subject position (Keenan, 1976;Paul, 2000aPaul, , 2001aPaul, , 2002Pearson, 2001;Rabenilaina, 1998;Sabel, 2002;and others This restriction, stated in (20) below, will be important as a descriptive generalization in the discussions that follow, although I will not offer an explanation for it (see MacLaughlin, 1995;Paul, 2002;Pearson, 2005;and Sabel, 2002 for possible analyses of the restriction).…”

Section: Malagasy Syntax and Wh-questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The pseudocleft analysis, which I will ultimately defend, builds on proposals in Dahl (1986), Paul (2001aPaul ( , 2003b, Pearson (1996), and others. Under the pseudocleft analysis, wh-questions in Malagasy are pseudocleft structures in which the wh-phrase is a nonverbal predicate and the subject is a headless relative clause involving internal movement of a null operator, Op.…”

Section: The Pseudocleft Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Section 4.2 illustrates ways in which predicate-oriented particles treat the initial wh-phrase as a predicate and not a fronted argument/adjunct wh-operator. Section 4.3 points out parallels with a focus construction that Paul (2001a) analyzes as a pseudocleft. Lastly, section 4.4 argues that the pseudocleft analysis provides a superior treatment of discontinuous wh-phrases.…”

Section: Argumentation Against the Fronting Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Under the FRONTING ANALYSIS (Sabel, 2002(Sabel, , 2003, such questions have an English-like, wh-movement derivation in which the wh-phrase moves to a clause-initial spec,C: (6) [ (Dahl, 1986;Paul, 2001a), wh-questions are covert pseudoclefts in which the wh-phrase is a predicate and the remaining material is a headless relative clause in subject position: (7) [ Both analyses are compatible with the observed word order and both have proponents in the literature but only the pseudocleft analysis, which I argue for, is compatible with the CTH.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Verb‐Initial Word Orders, Primarily in Austronesian and Mayan Languages

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Polinsky²

2017

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition

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This chapter presents several approaches to the syntax of verb‐initial (V1) languages with a special emphasis on Mayan and Austronesian languages. Some V1 languages are strictly VSO, others are VOS, and a significant number combine both orders. This chapter focuses on data from VSO/VOS languages and the factors that underlie these alternations. A number of V1 languages can be more adequately characterized as predicate‐initial, with V1 representing just a subset of possible clause‐initial predicates. The chapter presents a number of structural properties that are or may be associated with V1 and discusses possible implicational relations between such properties and V1. While there are certain common characteristics observed across V1 languages, it is also clear that there are several distinct subtypes of V1. These subtypes call for different syntactic analyses; main approaches include the derivation of V1 via phrasal movement (VP‐raising) and via head‐movement (verb‐raising). Other syntactic approaches to the derivation of V1 include the parametrization of specifier direction within a single language, non‐configurational syntax, and subject lowering. In addition to these purely syntactic analyses, several recent approaches place the derivation of V1 outside syntax or at the syntax–PF interface. Careful, in‐depth analyses of individual languages are required to test the different approaches to V1; in quite a few cases such analyses are still lacking.

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VOSLanguages: Some of Their Properties

Chung

2017

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition

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Languages in which clauses have Verb Object Subject as their dominant word order are called VOS languages . Such languages, which are typologically rare, raise a set of challenging issues for syntactic theory. Kayne (1995) proposed that VOS clauses are derived from SVO clauses by movement. This chapter surveys the types of arguments that have been brought to bear on movement analyses of VOS clauses, drawing on evidence from VOS languages as well as languages of other word order types which have VOS clauses. The conclusion reached is that a movement analysis is appropriate for VOS clauses in some languages, but not all. The idea that there are multiple routes to VOS‐hood is in harmony with the more general claim that there are multiple routes to verb‐initial word order.

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Concealed pseudo-clefts

Cited by 67 publications

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VOSLanguages: Some of Their Properties

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