German V2 and Doubly Filled COMP in West Germanic

Abstract The paper addresses the issue of Doubly Filled COMP effects in embedded interrogatives in West-Germanic languages, with particular attention paid to German: in these patterns, an overt interrogative operator co-occurs with an overt complementiser. Such configurations are ruled out from standard West-Germanic varieties, while they are attested in non-standard dialects. The paper argues that there are both theoretical and empirical arguments against the postulation of a Doubly Filled COMP Filter, proposing instead that the insertion of a visible complementiser in non-standard dialects i... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Bacskai-Atkari, Julia
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Reihe/Periodikum: The journal of comparative Germanic linguistics
Sprache: Englisch
Anmerkungen: © The Author(s) 2020
ISSN: 1383-4924
Weitere Identifikatoren: doi: 10.1007/s10828-020-09117-x
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/olc-benelux-2119309043
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Link(s) : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10828-020-09117-x
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10828-020-09117-x