Object movement (object shift and scrambling)
Hans Broekhuis
direct link: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003217
November 2016
This review article is intended for a handbook on Germanic languages. It differs from previous reviews of Scandinavian object shift and continental W-Germanic scrambling in that it adopts as a null hypothesis that the two phenomena should be given a unified treatment.
| Format: | [ pdf ] |
| Reference: | lingbuzz/003217 (please use that when you cite this article) |
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| keywords: | object shift, a-scrambling, a’-scrambling, effect-on-output, information structure, intonation, holmberg’s generalization, order preservation, vp-topicalization, semantics, syntax, phonology |