Variation in analytic causative constructions: a view on German and Romance

Abstract In this paper, we compare the German analytic causative construction to its Romance counterpart, focusing on three main differences: word order, case assignment, and the presence/absence of the obligation effect. We argue that all three differences can be related to a phrase structural difference, namely the type of projection heading the infinitival complement. We provide evidence that while the causative predicate embeds a VoiceP in German, Romance fare/faire combines with an ApplP. This difference is argued to lead to VP-movement in Romance, accounting for the word order difference... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Pitteroff, Marcel
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Reihe/Periodikum: The journal of comparative Germanic linguistics
Sprache: Englisch
Anmerkungen: © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
ISSN: 1383-4924
Weitere Identifikatoren: doi: 10.1007/s10828-014-9059-5
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/olc-benelux-2042972185
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Link(s) : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10828-014-9059-5
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10828-014-9059-5