29.2711, Books: Not another book on Verb Raising: Dros-Hendriks

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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 10:38:32
From: Karijn Hootsen [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Not another book on Verb Raising: Dros-Hendriks

Title: Not another book on Verb Raising 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/not-another-book-on-verb-raising 

Author: Lotte Dros-Hendriks

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932717 Pages: 221 Price: Europe EURO 32.00

Abstract:

This thesis provides a novel analysis of the word order variation in
three-‐verb clusters reported in the Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects
(SAND). On the basis of distributional correlations between order variation in
verb clusters and interruption of the verb cluster by non-‐verbal
constituents, it is argued that only 1-‐2-‐3 and its mirror image 3-‐2-‐1
are truly verbal clusters. All other orders attested in SAND are argued to
involve non-‐verbal elements: adjectival participles and nominal infinitives.
This analysis dispenses with movement in the derivation of verb clusters, an
improvement over many previous accounts, as movement in this domain is
unmotivated and, in certain cases, makes wrong predictions.

There are more crucial differences between the approach taken here and the
existing literature. It has a different starting point, the geographic
distribution of word orders. It uses a different methodology: a comparative
ranking task, which includes word orders that do not occur in the informants’
own varieties. It presents several new findings. Speakers turn out to possess
knowledge of word orders that do not occur in their own language varieties.
This is shown to follow from properties of human grammar. Neither familiarity
nor properties of language processing can account for these results. Verb
clusters are base-‐generated in a low structural position in the clause. An
analysis in which auxiliaries are generated directly as functional heads is
untenable for Dutch varieties. There is a cut-‐off point for cluster
interruption, which is parameterized. In West-‐Flemish, it lies at vP, only
elements that are merged below vP can interrupt the verb cluster.

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)

Written In: English  (eng)

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