On Postinitial<i>Aber</i>and Other Syntactic Transgressions: Some Considerations on the Nature of V2 in German

Catasso, Nicholas

doi:10.1017/s1470542715000124

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“…2.1. Speech act modifi ers WF (1b) and (2b) constitute a V2 transgression (Catasso 2015). The very acceptability of these patterns is surprising; their unacceptability in StD seems to follow straightforwardly from the V2 constraint.…”

Section: Speech Act Modifi Ers and Framepmentioning

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The temporal interpretation of West Flemish non-inverted V3

Haegeman¹

2019

The Sign of the V: Papers in Honour of Sten Vikner

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This chapter focuses on Dutch and the West Flemish dialect. It compares the interpretation of the initial temporal adjuncts in a regular V2 pattern, in which the fi nite verb has inverted with the subject, and in the West Flemish V3 pattern in which an adjunct precedes a non-inverted V2 pattern. An interpretive difference emerges in the periphrastic tenses: while in the regular V2 pattern, an initial time adjunct modifi es either the Reference Time or the Event Time of the associated clause, in the non-inverted V3 pattern, the initial temporal clause can only modify the matrix Reference Time. This restriction is shown to follow from the analysis elaborated in Haegeman & Greco (2018a,b) combined with a split Tense proposal in which Reference time and Event time are located on distinct functional heads.

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Section: Speech Act Modifi Ers and Framepmentioning

confidence: 99%

The temporal interpretation of West Flemish non-inverted V3

Haegeman¹

2019

The Sign of the V: Papers in Honour of Sten Vikner

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“…The empirical focus of our contribution is a phenomenon referred to in the literature as V2 transgressions (Catasso 2015), patterns in which the verb second (V2) constraint unexpectedly seems to be flouted. The descriptive label 'V2' covers the descriptive generalization that in languages like Dutch the finite verb of the root clause tends to occupy the linearly second position, being preceded by one constituent.…”

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“…The issue we are interested in here is V2 transgressions (Catasso 2015), i.e. patterns in which a regular V2 language displays patterns that seem to defy the V2 restriction.…”

Section: V2 Transgressionsmentioning

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Non-temporal dan and the grammar of V2*

Haegeman¹,

Trotzke²

2020

Nederlandse Taalkunde

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This paper discusses a pattern in which a finite verb is preceded by a locative PP which combines with an initial or final occurrence of the adverb dan (‘then’) and which may look like a violation of the V2 constraint. The paper is relevant in the context of how to handle what look like exceptions to the V2 pattern, a point that is sometimes neglected in the formal literature, though Zwart (2008a) draws attention to the importance of also capturing such recalcitrant data. Based on standard arguments for constituency, it will be shown that the adverb, which has a non-temporal reading, and the associated PP form one constituent. Thus, a pattern that might at first appear to be a violation of V2 in fact is shown to be in line with the constraint.

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“…The third possibility, viz. taking adversative aber to be a functional head, has not been proposed for adversative aber in the middle field, but is assumed for postinitial aber by Catasso (2015) and Speyer and Weiß (2018). Taken together with Ferraresi's (2018) arguments for aber being associated with Frey's TopP high in the middle field, one might consider whether Catasso's analysis can be extended to the middle field, with aber occupying the head of a high functional projection in the middle field, for instance a TopP, (21).…”

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Wenn {aber} der Topf {aber} nun ein Loch hat ...

Breitbarth

2020

NLY

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While the literature on adversative aber in German to date has almost exclusively focused on independent clauses, and at best treated its occurrence in adverbial clauses in passing as a variant of postinitial aber in independent clauses (M´etrich and Courdier 1995, Pasch et al. 2003), the current paper focuses on the distribution and interpretation of adversative aber in adverbial clauses. It is shown that aber can have two different scopes, either contrasting two clauses, or two smaller contituents. These scopes are shown to have different prosodic correlates. It is argued that aber occupies the specifier of a functional projection in the upper middle field, and that it interacts with the mapping from syntax to prosody. Some displacements are argued to be interface-driven, to enable constituents to reach or avoid positions where they can be assigned a (contrastive) pitch accent. The diachronic development of adversative aber is shown to interact with the diachronic development of the Wackernagel position for unstressed pronouns.

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On PostinitialAberand Other Syntactic Transgressions: Some Considerations on the Nature of V2 in German

Cited by 12 publications

References 32 publications

The temporal interpretation of West Flemish non-inverted V3

The temporal interpretation of West Flemish non-inverted V3

Non-temporal dan and the grammar of V2*

Wenn {aber} der Topf {aber} nun ein Loch hat ...

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