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Chapter 18 - The Unification of Object Shift and Object Scrambling

from Part III - Syntax

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2020

By
Hans Broekhuis
Edited by
Michael T. Putnam  and
B. Richard Page
Michael T. Putnam
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
B. Richard Page
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
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Summary

This chapter reviews a number of issues concerning Scandinavian object shift and object scrambling of the type found in the Germanic OV-languages. It differs from earlier reviews in that it adopts as its null hypothesis that the two phenomena should be given a unified treatment. An important reason for this is that object shift and scrambling are subject to similar effect-on-output conditions. This raises the question why object shift and scrambling behave differently with respect to, e.g., Holmberg’s Generalization. It will be argued that this is due to the fact that object movement is subject to various language-specific, violable constraints.

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Word orderobject shiftscramblingHolmberg’s Generalizationorder preservationinformation structureA-movementverb movementeffect-on-outputlanguage variation
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The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics , pp. 413 - 435
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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