Object Shift and remnant VP-topicalisation: Danish and Swedish verb particles and ‘let’-causatives

Engels, Eva; Vikner, Sten

doi:10.1017/s0332586513000243

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“…Our analysis of the cross-speaker correlation in object-order preference in the two active contexts will be based on a theory of linearization originally motivated in part by Holmberg’s Generalization effects, namely Fox and Pesetsky’s (2005) Cyclic Linearization proposal. There are several formal approaches to order preservation effects (Sells 2001; Richards 2004; Fox and Pesetsky 2005; Engels and Vikner 2013). Here, we use Fox and Pesetsky’s system, which expresses the relevant facts without further assumptions 7…”

Section: Object Ordering In Norwegianmentioning

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Object symmetry effects in Germanic

Haddican

Holmberg

2018

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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This paper focuses on passive symmetry effects in Germanic. We describe two large-sample judgment experiments with native speakers of Norwegian and Swedish, two partially symmetric passive languages. The results fail to support predictions of Anagnostopoulou's (2003) seminal locality approach to passive symmetry in these languages. We propose that constraints on object ordering in these varieties are better modeled on a revised version of classic case-based theories. On this approach, patterns of object ordering are governed by variation in the way that case is assigned to objects. In addition, the Norwegian results suggest a shape conservation effect in object shift contexts not previously reported in the literature. Themerecipient orders in Norwegian object shift contexts are available for just those speakers who also accept theme-recipient orders in active non-object shift contexts. This object ordering constraint applies in the same environment that another, much better described ordering constraint applies, namely Holmberg's Generalization effects. We show that these results are explained by Fox and Pesetsky's (2005) cyclic linearization algorithm together with the assumption that theme-recipient orders vP-internally reflect short theme-movement above the recipient.

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Section: Object Ordering In Norwegianmentioning

confidence: 99%

Object symmetry effects in Germanic

Haddican

Holmberg

2018

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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“…Active non-OS Active OS Passive (Sells, 2001;Richards, 2004;Fox & Pesetsky, 2005;Engels & Vikner, 2013). Specifically, Haddican & Holmberg (2014) propose that the same VPinternal movement operation responsible for the theme-goal order in Active-non-OS contexts also feeds OS.…”

Section: Shape Conservation Effects In Norwegianmentioning

confidence: 99%

Constant effects and the independence of variants in controlled judgment data*

Haddican¹,

Johnson²,

Hilton³

2016

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This article proposes that Kroch’s (1989) Constant Rate Hypothesis – the generalization that contextual effects tend to be stable in processes of diachronic variation in production data – be extended to synchronic variation in controlled judgment data. Two recent, large-sample judgment experiments are discussed suggesting that shared contextual effects across speakers in acceptability judgments can be used to infer a single abstract source for patterns of variation across superficially different contexts. At the same time, the results suggest that not all sets of variants – or “ways of saying the same thing” (Labov 1972: 271) – are linguistic variables of this formally defined type.

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“…Som vist i Vikner (1987Vikner ( , 2007, Engels & Vikner (2013, 2014, og mange andre steder, er mønstret i (21)-(23) helt det samme som mønstret for verber der er indlejret under det kausative verbum lade:…”

Section: Verber Og Partikler I De Germanske Svo-sprogunclassified

“…P°/ Prt° står før DP både på tysk og på engelsk/dansk). Som vist i Vikner (1987Vikner ( , 2007, Engels & Vikner (2013, 2014, og mange andre steder, er mønstret i (21)- (23) Idet jeg antager at dansk/norsk/svensk er SVO-sprog, følger det at (24b) og(26b) involverer flytning af DP'en -det ikke-acceptable alternativ er nemlig at (24a) og(25a) involverer flytning af infinitiven, og dette alternativ ville gøre norsk og svensk til OV-sprog. Parallellerne mellem (21)- (23) og (24)- (26) fører derfor til antagelsen af at (23b) også involverer flytning af DP'en og ikke til antagelsen af at (23b) viser at danske partikler står efter deres komple-6 ment (hvilket heller ikke ville vaere kompatibelt med at tilskrive partikler og praepositioner den samme grundstruktur som i (14a) og (19a)).…”

Section: Verber Og Partikler I De Germanske Sov-sprogunclassified

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Verbalpartikelvariation i de germanske sprog

Vikner¹

2016

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I have two goals in this paper, namely (1) a more global one: to present (and try to account for) the variation concerning verb particles across the Germanic languages, and (2) a more “local” one: to use some of this variation data to support my analysis that Yiddish is an SOV-language like German and Dutch and not an SVO-language like English and the Scandinavian languages. Yiddish is similar to German as far as verb particles are concerned, and this follows from an analysis of Yiddish as SOV, but not from a hypothetical SVO-analysis.

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Object Shift and remnant VP-topicalisation: Danish and Swedish verb particles and ‘let’-causatives

Cited by 6 publications

References 23 publications

Object symmetry effects in Germanic

Object symmetry effects in Germanic

Constant effects and the independence of variants in controlled judgment data*

Verbalpartikelvariation i de germanske sprog

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