Weak function word shift

  • The fact that object shift only affects weak pronouns in mainland Scandinavian is seen as an instance of a more general observation that can be made in all Germanic languages: weak function words tend to avoid the edges of larger prosodic domains. This generalisation has been formulated within Optimality Theory in terms of alignment constraints on prosodic structure by Selkirk (1996) in explaining thedistribution of prosodically strong and weak forms of English functionwords, especially modal verbs, prepositions and pronouns. But a purely phonological account fails to integrate the syntactic licensing conditions for object shift in an appropriate way. The standard semantico-syntactic accounts of object shift, onthe other hand, fail to explain why it is only weak pronouns that undergo object shift. This paper develops an Optimality theoretic model of the syntax-phonology interface which is based on the interaction of syntactic and prosodic factors. The account can successfully be applied to further related phenomena in English and German.

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Author:Ralf Vogel
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1153003
URL:http://roa.rutgers.edu/files/663-0504/663-VOGEL-0-0.PDF
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1515/LING.2006.034
ISSN:1613-396X
ISSN:0024-3949
Document Type:Preprint
Language:English
Year of Completion:2004
Date of first Publication:2004/04/28
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2010/05/27
GND Keyword:Optimalitätstheorie; Syntax; Semantik; Phonologie; Prosodie; Kontrastive Linguistik
Page Number:30
First Page:1
Last Page:30
Note:
Preprint, erschienen in: Linguistics, 44.2006, Nr. 5, 2006, S. 1059-1093, doi:10.1515/LING.2006.034
Source:http://roa.rutgers.edu/files/663-0504/663-VOGEL-0-0.PDF ; (in:) Linguistics, 44/5, 2006, S. 1059-1093 [S. 1-30]
HeBIS-PPN:225934582
Institutes:keine Angabe Fachbereich / Extern
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Germanistik / GiNDok
Linguistik
Germanistik / GindokWeimar
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht