On Partial Constituent Fronting in German

Abstract This paper presents a reevaluation of the choice between the two analyses for German partial fronting phenomena proposed in the literature, remnant movement and reanalysis. We show that the empirical arguments which were presented in favor of an extraction analysis are not convincing, and we provide empirical evidence supporting a reanalysis-like approach. Turning to a detailed data discussion, we compare three different kinds of partial constituents: verbal, adjectival, and nominal ones. Adjectival complements pattern with coherently selected verbal complements whereas nominal comple... Mehr ...

Verfasser: De Kuthy, Kordula
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:1011926510300
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/olc-benelux-2042971324
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Link(s) : https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011926510300
https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011926510300