TY  - INPR
A1  - Alexiadou, Artemis
A1  - Anagnostopoulou, Elena
A2  - Abraham, Werner
A2  - Gelderen, Elly van
T1  - Toward a uniform account of scrambling and clitic doubling
N2  - A commonly held view in the literature on Scrambling and Clitic Doubling is that both constructions are sensitive to Specificity. For this reason Sportiche (1992) proposes to unify the two, an approach which has become quite standard in the relevant literature ever since. However, the claim that clitic doubling is the counterpart of Germanic scrambling has never been substantiated. In this paper we present extensive evidence from Greek that Clitic Doubling has common formal properties with Germanic Scrambling/Object Shift. Our evidence consists mainly of binding facts observed when doubling takes place, which seem, at first sight, to be completely unexpected. On closer inspection, however, it turns out that these facts are strongly reminiscent of the effects showing up in Germanic scrambling. We propose that these properties can be derived under a theory of clitic constructions along the lines of Sportiche (1992) implemented into the framework of Chomsky (1995). Finally we suggest the that the crosslinguistic distribution of Scrambling as opposed to Clitic Doubling should be linked to a parameter relating to properties of Agr: Move/Merge XP vs. Move/Merge X° to Agr. We show that this parameter unifies the behaviour of subjects and objects within a language and across languages. The paper is organised as follows. In section 2 we present evidence from binding, interpretational and prosodic effects that doubling and scrambling display very similar properties. In section 3 we present Sportiches account and point out some problems for it. In section 4 we present our proposal.
KW  - Vergleich
KW  - Scrambling
KW  - Neugriechisch
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Spezifität
KW  - Binding
KW  - Clitic Doubling
Y1  - 2008
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/9603
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1108430
UR  - http://ifla.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/mitarbeiter/artemis/abrahmax.pdf
SN  - 978-3-484-30374-4
SN  - 3-484-30374-3
N1  - Preprint, erschienen in: Werner Abraham ; Elly van Gelderen (Hrsg.): German : syntactic problems - problematic syntax, Tübingen : Niemeyer, 1997, Linguistische Arbeiten ; 374, ISBN: 978-3-484-30374-4, ISBN: 3-484-30374-3
ER  -