TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hein, Johannes
T1  - Verb movement and the lack of verb-doubling VP topicalization in Germanic
JF  - The journal of comparative Germanic linguistics
N2  - In the absence of a stranded auxiliary or modal, VP-topicalization in most Germanic languages gives rise to the presence of a dummy verb meaning 'do'. Cross-linguistically, this is a rather uncommon strategy as comparable VP-fronting constructions in other languages, e.g. Hebrew, Polish, and Portuguese, among many others, exhibit verb doubling. A comparison of several recent approaches to verb doubling in VP-fronting reveals that it is the consequence of VP-evacuating head movement of the verb to some higher functional head, which saves the (low copy of the) verb from undergoing copy deletion as part of the low VP copy in the VP-topicalization dependency. Given that almost all Germanic languages have such V-salvaging head movement, namely V-to-C movement, but do not show verb doubling, this paper suggests that V-raising is exceptionally impossible in VP-topicalization clauses and addresses the question of why it is blocked. After discussing and rejecting some conceivable explanations for the lack of verb doubling, I propose that the blocking effect arises from a bleeding interaction between V-to-C movement and VP-to-SpecCP movement. As both operations are triggered by the same head, i.e. C, the VP is always encountered first by a downward search algorithm. Movement of VP then freezes it and its lower copies for subextraction precluding subsequent V-raising. Crucially, this implies that there is no V-to-T raising in most Germanic languages. V2 languages with V-to-T raising, e.g. Yiddish, are correctly predicted to not exhibit the blocking effect.
KW  - Verb doubling
KW  - Head movement
KW  - VP-topicalization
KW  - Copy deletion
KW  - V-to-T
KW  - movement
KW  - V-to-C movement
KW  - Verb second
KW  - Freezing
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10828-021-09125-5
SN  - 1383-4924
SN  - 1572-8552
VL  - 24
IS  - 1
SP  - 89
EP  - 144
PB  - Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hein, Johannes
A1  - Barnickel, Katja
T1  - Replication of R-pronouns in German dialects
JF  - Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft : ZS
N2  - A considerable number of German dialects exhibit doubled R-pronouns with pronominal adverbs (dadamit, dadafur, dadagegen). At first sight, this type of in situ replication seems to be completely redundant since its occurrence is independent of R-pronoun extraction/movement. The main purpose of this paper is to account for (i) the difference between dialects with regard to replication of R-pronouns and (ii) why an (apparently redundant) process of replication occurs. Following Muller (2000a), who considers R-pronouns to be a repair phenomenon, we present an analysis in the framework of Optimality Theory. We argue that replication of R-pronouns is a consequence of different rankings of universal requirements like e.g. the Inclusiveness Condition, the Lexical Integrity Hypothesis and Antilocality and that the interaction of these constraints results in the occurrence of replication.
KW  - R-pronouns
KW  - Optimality Theory
KW  - doubling
KW  - German
KW  - dialectal variation
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2018-0009
SN  - 0721-9067
SN  - 1613-3706
VL  - 37
IS  - 2
SP  - 171
EP  - 204
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hein, Johannes
A1  - Murphy, Andrew
T1  - VP-nominalization and the Final-over-Final Condition
JF  - Linguistic inquiry
N2  - The Final-over-Final Condition has emerged as a robust and explanatory generalization for a wide range of phenomena (Biberauer, Holmberg, and Roberts 2014, Sheehan et al. 2017). In this article, we argue that it also holds in another domain, nominalization. In languages that show overt nominalization of VPs, one word order is routinely unattested, namely, a head-initial VP with a suffixal nominalizer. This typological gap can be accounted for by the Final-over-Final Condition, if we allow it to hold within mixed extended projections. This view also makes correct predictions about agentive nominalizations and nominalized serial verb constructions.
KW  - Final-over-Final Condition
KW  - nominalization
KW  - extended projections
KW  - word
KW  - order
KW  - serial verb constructions
KW  - syntax
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00407
SN  - 0024-3892
SN  - 1530-9150
VL  - 53
IS  - 2
SP  - 337
EP  - 370
PB  - MIT Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
A1  - Breyer, Herbert
A1  - Czech, Olaf
A1  - Hein, Christian
A1  - Kussmann, Michael
A1  - Lehmke, Johannes
A1  - Osenberg, Hans
A1  - Schulte, Hans
A1  - Traebert, Wolf
A1  - Wolffgramm, Horst
T1  - Empfehlungen des VDI für das Studium des Lehramtes Technik in der gymasialen Oberstufe
Y1  - 1997
PB  - Verein Dt. Ingenieure
CY  - Düsseldorf
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Breyer, Herbert
A1  - Czech, Olaf
A1  - Hein, Christian
A1  - Kussmann, Michael
A1  - Lehmke, Johannes
A1  - Osenberg, Hans
A1  - Schulte, Hans
A1  - Traebert, Wolf
A1  - Wolffgramm, Horst
A1  - Meier, Bernd
T1  - Aufgaben und Ziele des Studiums und Studiengebiet Fachdidaktik Technik
Y1  - 1997
ER  -