TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fanselow, Gisbert
T1  - Cyclic phonology-syntax-interaction
BT  - movement to first position in German
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - This paper investigates the nature of the attraction of XPs to clauseinitial position in German (and other languages). It argues that there are two different types of preposing. First, an XP can move when it is attracted by an EPP-like feature of Comp. Comp can, however, also attract elements that bear the formal marker of some semantic or pragmatic (information theoretic) function. This second type of movement is driven by the attraction of a formal property of the moved element. It has often been misanalysed as “operator” movement in the past. Japanese wh-questions always exhibit focus intonation (FI). Furthermore, the domain of FI exhibits a correspondence to the wh-scope. I propose that this phonology-semantics correspondence is a result of the cyclic computation of FI, which is explained under the notion of Multiple Spell-Out in the recent Minimalist framework. The proposed analysis makes two predictions: (1) embedding of an FI into another is possible; (2) (overt) movement of a wh-phrase to a phase edge position causes a mismatch between FI and wh-scope. Both predictions are tested experimentally, and shown to be borne out.
KW  - topicalization
KW  - focus movement
KW  - operator movement
KW  - A-bar-movement
Y1  - 2004
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8264
SN  - 1866-4725
SN  - 1614-4708
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 42
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hartmann, Katharina
A1  - Zimmermann, Malte
T1  - Focus strategies in chadic
BT  - the case of tangale revisited
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - We argue that the standard focus theories reach their limits when confronted with the focus systems of the Chadic languages. The backbone of the standard focus theories consists of two assumptions, both called into question by the languages under consideration. Firstly, it is standardly assumed that focus is generally marked by stress. The Chadic languages, however, exhibit a variety of different devices for focus marking. Secondly, it is assumed that focus is always marked. In Tangale, at least, focus is not marked consistently on all types of constituents. The paper offers two possible solutions to this dilemma.
KW  - tone languages
KW  - focus marking
KW  - focus movement
Y1  - 2004
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8423
SN  - 1866-4725
SN  - 1614-4708
IS  - 1
SP  - 207
EP  - 243
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Skopeteas, Stavros
A1  - Verhoeven, Elisabeth
A1  - Fanselow, Gisbert
T1  - Discontinuous noun phrases in Yucatec Maya
JF  - Journal of linguistics : JL / publ. for the Linguistics Association of Great Britain
N2  - Languages differ in whether or not they allow discontinuous noun phrases. If they do, they further vary in the ways the nominal projections interact with the available syntactic operations. Yucatec Maya has two left-peripheral configurations that differ syntactically: a preverbal position for foci or wh-elements that is filled in by movement, and the possibility to adjoin topics at the highest clausal layer. These two structural options are reflected in different ways of the formation of discontinuous patterns. Subextraction from nominal projections to the focus position yielding discontinuous NPs is possible, but subject to several restrictions. It observes conditions on extraction domains, and does not apply to the left branch of nominal structures. The topic position also appears to license discontinuity, typically involving a non-referential nominal expression as the topic and quantifiers/adjectives that form an elliptical nominal projection within the clause proper. Such constructions can involve several morphological and syntactic mismatches between their parts that are excluded for continuous noun phrases, and they are not sensitive to syntactic island restrictions. Thus, in a strict sense, discontinuities involving the topic position are only apparent, because the construction involves two independent nominal projections that are semantically linked.
KW  - discontinuous noun phrases
KW  - focus movement
KW  - left dislocation
KW  - possessor
KW  - extraction
KW  - split topicalization
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226720000419
SN  - 0022-2267
SN  - 1469-7742
VL  - 58
IS  - 3
SP  - 609
EP  - 648
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - New York
ER  -