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Chapter On V2, gaps, and operators in comment and reporting parentheticals

Parenthetical comment and reporting clauses exhibit various interesting properties, which are shown to be related. Three different word order pat-terns are attested in Dutch and German: apparent V1, V2 and V-final; the internal argument of the parenthetical verb is usually missing; there is an optio...

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Main Author: Kluck, Marlies (auth)
Other Authors: de Vries, Mark (auth), Schneider, Stefan (Editor), Glikman, Julie (Editor), Avanzi, Mathieu (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2015
Subjects:
Historical & comparative linguistics
Phonetics, phonology
Grammar, syntax & morphology
comment clause
reporting clause
as-parenthetical
operator
anaphoric so
word order
verb second (V2)
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Summary:Parenthetical comment and reporting clauses exhibit various interesting properties, which are shown to be related. Three different word order pat-terns are attested in Dutch and German: apparent V1, V2 and V-final; the internal argument of the parenthetical verb is usually missing; there is an optional so/zo element; the construction is island-sensitive. These patterns are explained by means of an operator that is A ́-moved inside the parenthetical, and which can optionally be lexicalized in the first position. The V-final pattern arises when a complementizer is present, which is the case in propositional as-parentheticals.
ISBN:9783110376142-006
9783110376036; 9783110394191
Access:Open Access

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