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Author Salzmann, Martin.

Title Reconstruction and Resumption in Indirect A'-Dependencies.

Publication Info. Berlin/Boston, UNITED STATES : De Gruyter, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (510).
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Series Studies in generative grammar ; volume 117
Studies in generative grammar ; 117.
Summary This monograph investigates A'-dependencies in Standard German, Alemannic and Dutch where the dislocated constituent is indirectly, i.e. not transformationally, related to the position where it is interpreted. The study focuses on relative clauses and shows that an important part of the relativization system in these languages, long relativization, involves a hitherto ignored construction termed resumptive prolepsis. This construction is characterized by base-generation of the operator in the matrix middle-field and a resumptive pronoun in the position of the variable. It is shown that it involves short A'-movement in the matrix clause, empty operator movement in the complement clause and an ellipsis operation that links the two operators. While the link is directly visible in German and Dutch, Swiss German provides a more abstract version of resumptive prolepsis. Through a detailed examination of reconstruction effects and the properties of resumption in these constructions, the book provides new evidence for the role of ellipsis in A'-movement and for a base-generation analysis of resumption. More generally, it makes an important contribution to the modeling of long-distance dependencies and the study of A'-syntax.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject German language -- Clauses.
German language -- Clauses.
Alemannic dialects -- Clauses.
Alemannic dialects.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses.
Dutch language -- Clauses.
Dutch language.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Salzmann, Martin, 1975- Reconstruction and resumption in indirect A'-dependencies. Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2017] 9781614512912 1614512914 (DLC) 2017016447 (OCoLC)985359687
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