Abstract:This paper discusses how German parasitic gap data from various earlier publications illustrate two patterns of systematic grammatical variation in the language, which have not been previously identified as such in the literature. I show how Heck and Himmelreich’s (Heck, Fabian & Anke Himmelreich. 2017. Opaque intervention. Linguistic Inquiry 48. 47–97) analysis for one pattern, although not able to currently capture both patterns, can be extended by allowing for variation in the positions targeted by scra… Show more
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