TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sauerland, Uli
T1  - Erasability and interpretation
T2  - Syntax
N2  - This paper corroborates the interpretability proposal of Chomsky (1995) with evidence from scrambling in Japanese and German. First it is shown that scrambling in Japanese is semantically vacuous, whereas scrambling in German is semantically contentful. Chomsky’s proposal then predicts that the feature driving Japanese scrambling is erased after checking, while the corresponding feature in German remains visible, specifically for the Shortest Attract condition. Looking at patterns of movement that result in overlapping paths, this prediction is seen to be correct.
KW  - Generative Transformationsgrammatik
KW  - Funktionale Kategorie
KW  - Scrambling
KW  - Wortstellung
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Japanisch
Y1  - 1999
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38591
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-385914
UR  - https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Bz8d8ZE7fhuTRWgxbHRkeGpCTUk
SN  - 1467-9612
SN  - 1368-0005
VL  - 2
IS  - 3
SP  - 161
EP  - 188
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Oxford
ER  -