Phrasal typology and the interaction of topicalization, wh-movement, and extraposition
- Ever since Chomsky's "On Wh-Movement" (Chomsky 1977) it has been assumed that topicalization and wh-question formation can be analyzed as instances of the same operation. Leaving certain features aside, this proposal carries over to the analysis of unbounded dependency constructions in HPSG since structurally, topicalization does not differ from wh-question formation in the analysis suggested in Pollard & Sag (1994: 157-163). In the present paper, we challenge this assumption and suggest an alternative analysis of unbounded dependency constructions. Here, topicalization and wh-question formation are considered as structurally different at least in certain languages. They may, however, be structurally identical in other languages. This difference is empirically reflected in patterns of relative clause extraposition. As has been pointed out by Culicover & Rochemont (1990: 28), an extraposed relative clause must not take an antecedent contained in a VP if the VP is topicalized but the relative clause is not.
| Author: | Tibor KissORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-708337 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2002.6 |
| ISSN: | 1535-1793 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications |
| Place of publication: | Stanford, CA |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2003/04/01 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2003 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Contributing Corporation: | International Conference on Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (9 : 2002 : Seoul) |
| Release Date: | 2024/08/29 |
| GND Keyword: | Topikalisierung; Extraposition; W-Bewegung; Relativsatz |
| Volume: | 9.2003 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Page Number: | 20 |
| First Page: | 109 |
| Last Page: | 128 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
| 4 Sprache / 42 Englisch, Altenglisch / 420 Englisch, Altenglisch | |
| 4 Sprache / 43 Deutsch, germanische Sprachen allgemein / 430 Germanische Sprachen; Deutsch | |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
