PP-over-V meets Universal 20
Abstract It has proven hard to force a decision between rival analyses of Universal 20. This is because new typological data are scarce, and the number of syntactic tests applicable in the noun phrase is relatively small. I therefore consider a related set of facts that involve language-internal word order variation in the verb phrase. I first show that the pattern of grammatical and ungrammatical orders in Dutch verb phrases containing three PPs closely matches the pattern of attested and unattested orders in the noun phrase. I then use the distribution of the particle pas ‘only’ to argue tha... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Reihe/Periodikum: | The journal of comparative Germanic linguistics |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Anmerkungen: | © The Author(s) 2017 |
ISSN: | 1383-4924 |
Weitere Identifikatoren: | doi: 10.1007/s10828-017-9085-1 |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10828-017-9085-1
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