Antisymmetry and Verb-Final Order in West Flemish
Abstract This paper focuses on the derivation of the verb-final pattern in West Flemish, a West Germanic OV language. The paper compares antisymmetric approaches which assume short or no V-movement and antisymmetric approaches which postulate double movement: V-to-I movement + remnant movement. The data discussed concern (i) the position of the verb, (ii) the observed correlation of V-movement with certain patterns of argument distribution (object shift, the transitive expletive construction), and (iii) the expression of sentential negation. The data suggest that a double movement analysis is... Mehr ...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
| Reihe/Periodikum: | The journal of comparative Germanic linguistics |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Anmerkungen: | © Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001 |
| ISSN: | 1383-4924 |
| Weitere Identifikatoren: | doi: 10.1023/A:1011912402857 |
| Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/olc-benelux-2042971316 |
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| Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011912402857
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Abstract This paper focuses on the derivation of the verb-final pattern in West Flemish, a West Germanic OV language. The paper compares antisymmetric approaches which assume short or no V-movement and antisymmetric approaches which postulate double movement: V-to-I movement + remnant movement. The data discussed concern (i) the position of the verb, (ii) the observed correlation of V-movement with certain patterns of argument distribution (object shift, the transitive expletive construction), and (iii) the expression of sentential negation. The data suggest that a double movement analysis is preferable to accounts without V-to-I movement.