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Two Types of Wh-Scope Marking in Passamaquoddy
There are two competing analyses of wh-scope marking in the world's languages: the direct dependency analysis, which posits LF movement of an...
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Substantiv, Artikel, Pronomen
Das Substantiv ist die mit Abstand umfangreichste Wortkategorie, im Deutschen wie in anderen Sprachen auch. Sein Anteil am Gesamtwortschatz macht...
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The Concept of Language We Need
So far, I have provided only a negative account of such a concept. I have criticised a specific concept of I-language as the concept we absolutely do...
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On Expletives
An important aspect of the analysis of‘XP-subject’ orders in the Germanic languages in chapter 4 was the assumption that in some languages subjects...
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Coordination and Agreement
In chapter 3 I argued that coordination involves a two identical projections that host the conjuncts in their respective specifiers. This analysis...
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Realizing Germanic Inflection: Why Morphology Does Not Drive Syntax
This paper examines and evaluates what may be called the “Rich Agreement Hypothesis” (RAH) in the domain of verb movement asymmetries in Germanic....
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Oblique Case and Subjecthood or: Why Icelandic Is Different
In chapter 3, I outlined a theoretical approach to the traditional observation that there is a correlation between the presence of a morphological...
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Conclusion
In this book, I examined various aspects of the distribution of arguments in the Germanic languages. Two main points have emerged from our...
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Features, Categories and Checking
As discussed in chapter 1, the Extended Projection Principle (EPP) and the theory of abstract Case have played a central role for the analysis of the...
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Icelandic Case and the Structure of Events
I argue in this paper for a novel analysis of case in Icelandic, with implications for case theory in general. I argue that structural case is the...
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A-Chains At The Pf-Interface: Copies And `Covert Movement
This paper develops an argument for the copy theory ofmovement based on consideration of Holmberg's Generalization [HG], a well-documented...
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Expletives and Agreement in Scandinavian Passives
The paper deals with variation found among the Scandinavian languages and English concerning word order and agreement in passives. The variation...
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Antisymmetry and Verb-Final Order in West Flemish
This paper focuses on the derivation of the verb-final pattern in West Flemish, a West Germanic OV language. The paper compares antisymmetric...
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Subjecthood and Agreement
A standard assumption that has been made in the generative literature is that subjecthood can be defined in structural terms. Within...
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Introduction
The aim of this book is to consider some aspects of the distribution of nominal arguments in the Germanic languages and in particular aspects of the...
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Other Areas of Investigation: Negation and Late Argument Drop
From the investigation of infinitives and null subjects in Wh-questions and from the results presented in Chapter 8, it emerges that the truncation...
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Syntactic Effects of Morphological Case
As discussed in the previous chapter, the distributional properties of nominal arguments have to a large extent been related to the theoretical...
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The new impersonal construction in Icelandic
Abstract. This paper reports the results of an extensive study of a syntactic change currentlyunderway in Iceland. The new construction appears to...
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The unbearable lightness of GOing: The projection parameter as a pure parameter governing the distribution of elliptic motion verbs in Germanic
It is a well-known fact that most of the Germanic languages can use modal verbs with non-verbal complements. In the present paper I will focus on...