[Lingtyp] Morpheme or X0 "extraction"

[Adam James Ross Tallman]

Hey all,

Just to clarify, I'm asking because I'm wondering how frequent apparent
counter examples are to Bruening
<https://babel.ucsc.edu/~hank/105/Bruening_2018.pdf>'s claim that X0
elements cannot be extracted.

Adam

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 1:49 PM Adam James Ross Tallman <
ajrtallman at utexas.edu> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am wondering if anyone has found examples where single morphemes can
> extract to first position. It is well-known that German can do this as in
>
> *Gelungen ist hier selten wem was auf anhieb*
> succeeded is here rarely somebody.DAT something.NOM on first.attempt
> 'that it was rarely the case that somebody succeeded in doing something
> here on the first attempt'
>
> For some reason the full VP cannot extract (**Wem gelunden ist hier
> selten was auf anhieb*). You can modify the fronted verb with an adverb *so
> gut *and apparently its grammatical (Bruening 2018)
>
> In Chácobo one can "extract" individual adverbial elements, but as far as
> I can tell only one of these elements can be "extracted" at a time.
>
> *tsaya=yama=kɨ*
> see=neg=dec:past
> *yama tsaya=kɨ*
> *neg*   see=dec:past
> 's/he didn't see it.'
>
> I wonder if there are cases like Chacobo or like German except where the
> verb cannot be modified by some element that is also fronted. Just
> instances of apparently non-phrasal (word, root or stem) extraction would
> also be interesting.
>
> p.s. I don't exactly know what extraction means all the time. In
> particular I'm not sure on what basis we can always assume that one
> sentence is derived from the other. For instance, in Chacobo I don't know
> on what basis I would assume that the verb is not in fact undergoing
> rightward extraction.
>
> best,
>
> Adam
>
>
>
> --
> Adam J.R. Tallman
> PhD, University of Texas at Austin
> Investigador del Museo de Etnografía y Folklore, la Paz
> ELDP -- Postdoctorante
> CNRS -- Dynamique Du Langage (UMR 5596)
>


-- 
Adam J.R. Tallman
PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Investigador del Museo de Etnografía y Folklore, la Paz
ELDP -- Postdoctorante
CNRS -- Dynamique Du Langage (UMR 5596)
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