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Reconstruction and Resumption in Indirect A'-Dependencies: On the Syntax of Prolepsis and Relativization in (Swiss) German and Beyond

Reconstruction and Resumption in Indirect A'-Dependencies: On the Syntax of Prolepsis and Relativization in (Swiss) German and Beyond

Salzmann, Martin

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [Sgg], Book 117

GermanLinguistics

ISBN10: 1614512914
ISBN13: 9781614512912
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Apr 24 2017
Pages: 510
Weight: 2.12
Height: 1.31 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This monograph investigates A'-dependencies in Standard German, Alemannic and Dutch where the dislocated constituent is indirectly, i.e. not transformationally, related to the position where it is interpreted.

The study focuses on relative clauses and shows that an important part of the relativization system in these languages, long relativization, involves a hitherto ignored construction termed resumptive prolepsis. This construction is characterized by base-generation of the operator in the matrix middle-field and a resumptive pronoun in the position of the variable. It is shown that it involves short A'-movement in the matrix clause, empty operator movement in the complement clause and an ellipsis operation that links the two operators. While the link is directly visible in German and Dutch, Swiss German provides a more abstract version of resumptive prolepsis.

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