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  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Broekhuis, Hans
T1  - Derivations (MP) and evaluations (OT)
JF  - Linguistics in Potsdam
N2  - The main claim of this paper is that the minimalist framework and optimality theory adopt more or less the same architecture of grammar: both assume that a generator defines a set S of potentially well-formed expressions that can be generated on the basis of a given input, and that there is an evaluator that selects the expressions from S that are actually grammatical in a given language L. The paper therefore proposes a model of grammar in which the strengths of the two frameworks are combined: more specifically, it is argued that the computational system of human language CHL from MP creates a set S of potentially well-formed expressions, and that these are subsequently evaluated in an optimality theoretic fashion.
KW  - Minimalist Program
KW  - Optimality Theory
KW  - Derivation-and-Evaluation model
KW  - Object Shift
Y1  - 2006
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-32347
SN  - 1616-7392
SN  - 1864-1857
IS  - 25
SP  - 137
EP  - 193
ER  -