Cross-Dialectal Variation in Swiss German: Doubling Verbs, Verb-Projection Raising, Barrierhood, and LF Movement

Schönenberger, Manuela; Penner, Zvi

doi:10.1007/978-94-015-8416-6_13

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“…(Swiss German) Given the phonetic similarities between the finite verb and the double, it is little surprising that there is a long tradition to refer to this construction as verb doubling, cf. Hodler (1969), Lötscher (1993), Nübling (1995), Schönenberger and Penner (1995a), Schönenberger and Penner (1995b), Schmidt (2000), van Riemsdijk (2002). The term is often used in a loose sense in that it is hardly made explicit in what sense go/cho are actually doubles and what the underlying syntax of the construction looks like.…”

Section:  Basic Properties Of Verb Doublingmentioning

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New arguments for verb cluster formation at PF and a right-branching VP

Salzmann

2013

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This paper provides new evidence that verb cluster formation in West Germanic takes place post-syntactically. Contrary to some previous accounts, I argue that cluster formation involves linearly adjacent morphosyntactic words and not syntactic sister nodes. The empirical evidence is drawn from Swiss German verb doubling constructions where intriguing asymmetries arise between ascending and descending orders. The approach additionally solves the cluster puzzle with extraposition and topicalization, generates all of the crosslinguistically attested six orders in the verbal complex and correctly predicts which orders are penetrable in which positions. On a more general level, the paper provides arguments for a derivational treatment of verb cluster formation and order variation and adduces important evidence in favor of a right-branching VP.

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Section:  Basic Properties Of Verb Doublingmentioning

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New arguments for verb cluster formation at PF and a right-branching VP

Salzmann

2013

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“…For this, we can consider again the particle gV that typically occurs with motion verbs and has already gained some attention in the literature on Swiss German, e.g. Lötscher (1993), Schönenberger & Penner (1995) or Riemsdijk (2002). An example from Swiss German is given in (1): 9(1) Swiss-ALM 9 I gang em vadder bim ufflade go hälffe.…”

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“…Exactly because of this similarity, the construction is often referred to as "verb doubling" in the literature, see e.g. Schönenberger & Penner (1995) and Riemsdijk (2002). The particle thus occupies in fact a verbal head within the VP, with a syntax akin to those of modal verbs.…”

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A “borderline case” of syntactic variation

Brandner

2020

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Dialectal maps of morpho-syntactic phenomena sometimes display patterns that either differ quite drastically from the traditional dialectal boundaries (which are mostly based on phonology or the lexicon) or show otherwise unexpected patterns. This paper argues to take these deviations seriously, namely as a potential tool to detect the different types and qualities of syntactic micro-variation. As a case study, differing patterns concerning the distribution of the infinitival marker zu across various infinitival constructions within the Alemannic dialect group will be examined and it will be argued that an analysis of the infinitival marker as the lexical realization of the [±coin] value within a theory of temporal anchoring, as proposed in Ritter & Wiltschko (2014), provides the necessary flexibility in order to capture these differing variational patterns.

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“…'be') often depends on the stative/active nature of the supported verb, 'do' being preferred for actives. In the German dialects, several authors have suggested a preference for use of 'do'-support with eventive rather than stative verbs (e.g Sch€ onenberger & Penner 1995;. Maienborn 2003: 62;Schwarz 2004;Casalicchio & Perna 2012).…”

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A Semantically Rich ‘Do’‐Support Verb in the Camuno Dialect of Northern Italy

Swinburne

2024

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In the Camuno dialect of northern Italy, ‘do’‐support may be used to form the interrogative. In some varieties, this is optional, and it co‐exists with the alternative interrogative method of using the main verb alone. Through an elicitation experiment, participants produced their preferred version of a question based on a certain main verb with given context. The likelihood that ‘do’‐support was used varied according to the supported verb's semantics and the context pragmatics, specifically: (a) the degree to which the verb denotes activity (directly or indirectly); and (b) the role of the subject as an effector, or ‘do’‐er of that activity. Unlike for ‘do’‐support in English, a purely syntactic function does not seem relevant for Camuno ‘do’. The study shows that: (1) even if, syntactically, the support verb resembles an auxiliary, it may have full lexical content; and (2) that there exists a credible grammaticalisation pathway from a lexical ‘do’ verb to a semantically bleached, contentless ‘do’, seemingly motivated by a social preference for the ‘do’‐support construction and a desire to simplify the interrogative system.

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Cross-Dialectal Variation in Swiss German: Doubling Verbs, Verb-Projection Raising, Barrierhood, and LF Movement

Cited by 8 publications

References 4 publications

New arguments for verb cluster formation at PF and a right-branching VP

New arguments for verb cluster formation at PF and a right-branching VP

A “borderline case” of syntactic variation

A Semantically Rich ‘Do’‐Support Verb in the Camuno Dialect of Northern Italy

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