On parallels and differences between clitic climbing and long scrambling & the economy of derivations
- In this paper I show that Clitic Climbing (CC) in Spanish and Long Scrambling (LS) in German (and Polish) are (im-)possible out of the same environments. For an explanation of this fact I propose a feature-oriented analysis of incorporation phenomena. The idea is that restructuring is a phenomenon of syntactic incorporation. In German and Polish, Agro incorporates covertly into the matrix clause and licenses LS out of the infinitival into the matrix clause. Similarily the clitic in Spanish, which is analysed as an Agro-head, incorporates into the matrix clause. I argue that this movement is necessary for reasons of feature-checking, i. e. for checking of an [+R]- or Restructuring-feature. In section 2 I discuss several differences between CC and LS. For example, the proposed analysis correctly predicts that clitics in contrast to scrambled phrases are subject to several serialization restrictions. Throughout the paper I use the term restructuring only in a descriptive sense, in order to describe the phenomenon in question.
Author: | Joachim Sabel |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-24802 |
Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 25), S. 405-423 |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 1995 |
Year of first Publication: | 1995 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2006/03/14 |
First Page: | 405 |
Last Page: | 423 |
Source: | Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 25), S. 405-423 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 224771620 |
Institutes: | Neuere Philologien / Neuere Philologien |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |