Suchergebnisse

Reduktionsformen und Kasussynkretismus bei deutschen und niederländischen Pronomina -- Zum in Bavarian and Scrambling -- Die am + Infinitiv-Konstruktion im Kölnischen und im umgangssprachlichen Standarddeutschen als Aspekt-Phrasen -- Syntaktische Strategien zum Ausdruck von Indefmitheit und Partitivität im Deutschen (Standardsprache und Dialekt) -- The Third Construction in Frisian -- Some Speculations on Argument Shift, Clitics and Crossing in West-Flemish -- Dialectal Variation inside CP as Parametric Variation -- Zur Genese der Verbverdopplung bei gaa, choo, laa, aafaa ("gehen", "kommen", "lassen", "anfangen") im Schweizerdeutschen -- W-Morphology in the COMP System of Bemese Swiss German and the Licensing of Empty Operators in the Prefield Position -- Aspekte der Auflösung des Kasussystems im Nordniederdeutschen -- Jiddisch als gemischte OV/VO-Sprache -- Clues from Dialect Syntax: Complementizer Agreement -- Mitarbeiter dieses Sonderheftes.

AbstractThe goal of this article is to explore the structure of the clausal "left periphery" with respect to a phenomenon that has so far only rarely been identified as a root‐clause phenomenon: emphatic topicalization (ET). It is a form of movement by which a phrase (not necessarily a wh‐phrase) targets the specifier of a complementizer. This movement prevents the CP complement from remaining in its embedded position. For convergence, the entire CP in which ET has applied must move to the left periphery of the clause that immediately dominates it. It is argued that this latter move is necessary because ET induces a feature that is only interpretable in the domain of illocutionary force, illocutionary force being a property of the utterance (i.e., typically of the root clause). The data come from the Bavarian dialect of German (Germanic) and from Bangla (Indo‐Aryan). In spite of the differences between these languages, the similarity of the constraints that are revealed by this study cannot be accidental. For Bangla, a typical wh‐in‐situ language, it is shown that the syntax of ET scope is to a large extent parallel to the syntax of wh‐scope. Thus, the syntax of wh‐scope can be argued to follow from general properties of the parametric choices made in Bangla (and perhaps in closely related languages).