Scandinavian Object Shift and Optimality Theory

Informationen zum Autor Sten Vikner is Associate Professor in English linguistics, University of Aarhus, Denmark. His previous publications include Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages and Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax (co-edited), and he is the Editor of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics. He researches Germanic comparative syntax, with a particular interest in how and why word order varies between languages.   Eva Engels is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Aesthetics and Communication at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her previous publications include Optimizing Adverb Positions as well as various book chapters and journal articles. Her research focuses on the comparative syntax of the Germanic languages and on how Optimality Theory applies to syntax. Klappentext This book presents an account of object shift, a word order phenomenon found in most of the Scandinavian languages where an object occurs unexpectedly to the left and not to the right of a sentential adverbial. With new and original observations, it is an important addition to the fields of phonology, optimality theory and theoretical syntax. Zusammenfassung This book presents an account of object shift! a word order phenomenon found in most of the Scandinavian languages where an object occurs unexpectedly to the left and not to the right of a sentential adverbial. With new and original observations! it is an important addition to the fields of phonology! optimality theory and theoretical syntax. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I: OBJECT SHIFT 1. Introduction 2. Object Shift 3. Optimality Theory 4. An Optimality Theory Analysis of Object Shift 5. Conclusion PART II: OBJECT SHIFT IN REMNANT VP-TOPICALISATION CONSTRUCTIONS 6. Introduction 7. V°-Topicalisation vs. Remnant VP-topicalisation 8. Object Shift and Remnant VP-topicalisation in Optimality Theory 9. Conclusion

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• Authors: Engels, E Engels, E. Engels, Eva Engels, S Vikner, S. Vikner, Sten Vikner, Sten Engels Vikner
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2014
• EAN: 9781137431639
• ISBN: 978-1-137-43163-9
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Palgrave Pivot; Palgrave Pivot
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Syntax, C, Historische und vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprache, allgemein und Nachschlagewerke, Germanische und Skandinavische Sprachen, Grammar, scandinavian, Language: reference & general, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Germanic Languages, Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Language Change, Linguistic change, Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar, Scandinavian languages, Object