TY  - JOUR
A1  - Vikner, Sten
A1  - Engels, Eva
T1  - An optimality-theoretic analysis of scandinavian object shift and remnant VP-topicalisation
JF  - Linguistics in Potsdam
N2  - Holmberg (1997, 1999) assumes that Holmberg's generalisation (HG) is derivational, prohibiting Object Shift (OS) across an intervening non-adverbial element at any point in the derivation. Counterexamples to this hypothesis are given in Fox & Pesetsky (2005) which show that remnant VP-topicalisations are possible in Scandinavian as long as the VP-internal order relations are maintained. Extending the empirical basis concerning remnant VP-topicalisations, we argue that HG and the restrictions on object stranding result from the same, more general condition on order preservation. Considering this condition to be violable and to interact with various constraints on movement in an Optimality-theoretic fashion, we suggest an account for various asymmetries in the interaction between remnant VP-topicalisations and both OS and other movement operations (especially subject raising) as to their order preserving characteristics and stranding abilities.
KW  - Object Shift
KW  - VP-topicalisation
KW  - Order preservation
Y1  - 2006
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-32359
SN  - 1616-7392
SN  - 1864-1857
IS  - 25
SP  - 195
EP  - 231
ER  -