Don’t Rush to Rehabilitate: A Remark on Koeneman and Zeijlstra 2014

Heycock, Caroline; Sundquist, John D.

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“…Note also that it has been claimed that there is a correlation between rich agreement inflection in a language and the presence in that language of verb movement to T. See Koeneman and Zeiljstra (2014) for a recent attempt to resuscitate this correlation, which has largely been discredited. The correlation does not seem to be real, see Bobaljik (2002) and Heycock and Sundquist (2017), as well as Harbour (2016). As Heycock and Sundquist (2017) show, Danish continued to exhibit verb movement to T for two centuries after having lost agreement inflection on the verb.…”

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“…The correlation does not seem to be real, see Bobaljik (2002) and Heycock and Sundquist (2017), as well as Harbour (2016). As Heycock and Sundquist (2017) show, Danish continued to exhibit verb movement to T for two centuries after having lost agreement inflection on the verb. I conclude that there is simply no connection at all between inflection and verb movement.…”

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Bracketing Paradoxes resolved

Newell

2021

The Linguistic Review

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Bracketing Paradoxes (BPs) have been the subject of many different analyses since the 1970s. Each of these analyses have included BP-specific machinery to account for the apparent mismatch between the syntactico-semantic and morpho-phonological structures argued to be necessary for a complete analysis of this phenomenon. This article proposes that independently necessary operations and structures in the morpho-syntactic and phonological modules allow for an analysis of BPs that avoids postulating ad-hoc tools. Specifically, a system that includes cyclic (phasal) interpretation of the morpho-syntax in combination with a flat (CVCV) phonological framework avoids the emergence of paradoxical structures altogether. The discussion therefore includes both current morpho-syntactic and phonological analyses of each construction proposed to give rise to a BP; comparatives (unhappier), Level-ordering BPs (ungrammaticality), Phrasal BPs (modular grammarian), Compound BPs (particle physicist), Particle-verbs (podžëg ‘set fire’ [Russian]), and Reduplicated BPs (kwíita-kwíita ‘to pour a bit’ [Kihehe]). The proposal that a flat phonological framework is key in avoiding the paradoxical nature of BPs has implications for the correct structure of phonological representations generally.

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Bracketing Paradoxes resolved

Newell

2021

The Linguistic Review

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“…I asked if Anne listens always to radio.DEF i car.DEF 'I asked if Anne always listens to the radio in the car.' This split with respect to verb movement in non-V2 contexts has traditionally VARIABLE VERB SECOND IN NORWEGIAN [3] been correlated with rich inflectional morphology present in Icelandic but lost in MNG (see Koeneman &Zeijlstra 2014, andHeycock &Sundquist 2017 for recent discussion of this correlation). As is by now well-established, this is not the whole picture.…”

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Variable verb second in Norwegian main and embedded clauses

Westendorp

2022

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Norwegian has verb second (V2) word order in main but not embedded clauses. Although as a first approximation V2 is a phenomenon characteristic of root clauses, it has long been known that it occurs also in a restricted set of embedded clauses in Norwegian, as in many, if not all, of the other North Germanic languages. Many Norwegian dialects in addition allow deviations from the standard V2 word order in main clause interrogatives. Hence, the asymmetric verb second pattern seems to break down in different ways in Norwegian. This study presents new data from a large-scale elicited production experiment targeting the placement of the finite verb in both main and embedded clauses in Norwegian. The distribution of deviations from the standard word order pattern, and the constraints on the environments where these are produced, will be of primary concern. While classic accounts of verb second analyse it as involving a macro-parameter, I will argue based on the collected production data that it is necessarily decomposed in several ways, with variation in both main and embedded clauses guided by clause type, assertion, and specific lexical items.

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“…Verbs that do not live up to this level of richness are assumed to always remain in VP, which leads to Adv-V order. In their defense of the RAH, Koeneman & Zeijlstra (2014) dismiss apparent counter-examples from Early Modern Danish, lacking verbal agreement but still displaying V-Adv word order in subordinate contexts, on the ground that they represent embedded CPs; in such cases, all verbs precede Adv because they move to C. However, Heycock & Sundquist (2017) claim that Koeneman & Zeijlstra's (2014) CP analysis is unjustified, since embedded V2 should be restricted to assertion-friendly contexts, typically that-clauses, while the examples at hand include a wider variety of subordinate clauses. This is where Gärtner enters the scene, calling for methodological caution.…”

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Introduction: New perspectives on diachronic syntax in North Germanic

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Engdahl

2019

Nord J Linguist

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This special issue of Nordic Journal of Linguistics is dedicated to diachronic generative syntax in the North Germanic languages. With the introduction of generative grammar in the late 1950s the historical perspective became less prominent within linguistics. Instead, contemporary language, normally represented by the researcher’s own intuitions, became the unmarked empirical basis within the generative field, although there were some early pioneering studies in generative historical syntax (e.g. Traugott 1972). It was not until the introduction of the Principles and Parameters theory in the 1990s that diachronic syntax emerged as an important domain of inquiry for generative linguists. Since then, the study of syntactic change has added a temporal dimension to the overall enterprise to better understand the nature of variation in human language.

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Don’t Rush to Rehabilitate: A Remark on Koeneman and Zeijlstra 2014

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

Bracketing Paradoxes resolved

Bracketing Paradoxes resolved

Variable verb second in Norwegian main and embedded clauses

Introduction: New perspectives on diachronic syntax in North Germanic

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