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Verb phrase movement as a window into head movement
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2016 Since Chomsky 2001 suggested that head movement might be a PF operation, there has been debate about the proper place of head movement in the grammar. The interaction of verb movement with verb phrase fronting can shed light on how and when head movement occurs.
LaCara, Nicholas Joseph
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The Flexible Nature of Verb Movement [PDF]
, 2000 This thesis looked at differences in verb placement across languages. On the basis ofthe data presented in chapter 1, I set out to develop an account of verb movementparametrization in declarative clauses. In this attempt, I tried to formulate hypothesesthat not only account for the correlations observed but are falsifiable as well. Thecentral claim is
Koeneman, O.N.C.J.
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Linguistics, 1997 Child language features a striking difference in root clauses between finite (auxiliary) verbs (in IP) and root infinitives and participles (in VP). Fronted nonfinite verbs are virtually never attested in child language. However, it is shown that there is no one-to-one correlation between position and inflection since finite verbs do not always front ...
Bennis, H.J. +2 more
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Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004 Several people have pointed out that there seems to be a close correlation between inflectional morphology and verb movement (see e.g. Kosmeijer 1986, Holmberg & Platzack 1988).
Kristine Bentzen
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Glossa, 2023 In this paper, I present a new approach to agreement asymmetries in Modern Standard Arabic. In Arabic, the verb agrees with the subject in number whenever the word order is SV, but not if the word order is VS.
Anke Himmelreich
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آداب الكوفة, 2021 The present study is an attempt to examine Chomsky’s theory of movement and see if it is applicable in Arabic language. and also verbless sentences distribution by exploring their syntactic comportment and presenting two minimalist proposals to justify ...
Tawfeeq Alghazali
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Dialectal variation in german 3-verb clusters : a surface-oriented optimality theoretic account [PDF]
, 2004 We present data from an empirical investigation on the dialectal variation in the syntax of German 3-verb clusters, consisting of a temporal auxiliary, a modal verb, and a predicative verb. The ordering possibilities vary greatly among the dialects. Some
Schmid, Tanja +2 more
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On variation in Faroese verb placement
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2010 In this paper, we present and discuss results from an investigation of verb placement in modern Faroese in which we collected data from speakers from a number of different dialect areas in the Faroe Islands.
Kristine Bentzen +3 more
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Romance and Croatian in Contact: Non-Clitic Auxiliaries in Istro-Romanian
Languages, 2021 This paper focuses on Istro-Romanian and argues that the TAM auxiliaries of this variety are not morphophonological clitics. This analysis is supported by the existence of several empirical phenomena (auxiliary-licensed VP-ellipsis, scrambling, and ...
Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae
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Verb movement in Biblical Aramaic: Bibliography
Acta Academica, 2001 ...
Adriaan Lamprecht
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