24.2708, Books: Object Shift in the Scandinavian Languages: Hosono

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Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 12:10:02
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Object Shift in the Scandinavian Languages: Hosono

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Title: Object Shift in the Scandinavian Languages 
Subtitle: Syntax, Information Structure, and Intonation 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/index3.html 

Author: Mayumi Hosono

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460931147 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 20.35

Abstract:

Scandinavian Object Shift is a movement phenomenon where a weak, unstressed
object pronoun moves across a sentential adverb. An object pronoun can move
only when verb movement takes place (Holmberg’s Generalization). No movement
phenomenon other than Object Shift in which movement of a sentential element
is dependent on that of another sentential element has been found. Due to this
property, Object Shift has long been one of the most controversial issues in
generative syntax. The thesis discusses the constructions relevant to Object
Shift from the intonational perspective, by presenting experimental data from
all the Scandinavian languages. It is shown that downstep typically occurs in
the Object Shift construction but does not occur in the constructions where
Object Shift cannot occur. A new hypothesis on Scandinavian Object Shift is
presented: the object pronoun moves to cause downstep. Holmberg’s
Generalization is accounted for as follows: When main verb movement takes
place, an object pronoun moves and causes downstep to eliminate a focal effect
on the sentential element(s) after the main verb. In the environments in which
downstep must not occur, i.e. in the constructions where the final pitch peak
occurs on the (in-situ) main verb, Object Shift does not occur either.

It is also shown that whether Object Shift is obligatory, optional or absent
depends on whether a Scandinavian variety at issue has an early or delayed
pitch gesture. A new generalization on Object Shift is presented: the earlier
the pitch gesture occurs, the more likely is Object Shift to occur; the more
delayed the pitch gesture is, the more likely is Object Shift to be absent.
Object Shift is thus not a dichotomous property, i.e. either present or
absent, but a gradient phenomenon in the Scandinavian languages.

This thesis targets researchers of various fields of linguistics, (generative)
syntax, information structure, and experimental phonetics.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Structure
                     Phonology
                     Syntax

Language Family(ies): East Scandinavian
                      West Scandinavian 

Written In: English  (eng)

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