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Preposition-determiner amalgams in German and French at the syntax-morphology interface

Abstract

The present paper examines preposition+determiner amalgams in French and German. I show that French and German P+D amalgams differ with respect to coordination: while German amalgams are transparent for coordination, French amalgams block certain coordinations. I propose that this is due to ta syntactic difference: German P+D amalgams correspond to two positions in the syntax, while French P+D amalgams occupy only one position. Adopting a model where morphology is split applying before and after the syntax, I argue that this syntactic difference of P+D amalgams corresponds to a morphological difference: German amalgams are post-syntactic contractions while French amalgams are inflected prepositions that enter the syntax as a single unit.

Abstract

The present paper examines preposition+determiner amalgams in French and German. I show that French and German P+D amalgams differ with respect to coordination: while German amalgams are transparent for coordination, French amalgams block certain coordinations. I propose that this is due to ta syntactic difference: German P+D amalgams correspond to two positions in the syntax, while French P+D amalgams occupy only one position. Adopting a model where morphology is split applying before and after the syntax, I argue that this syntactic difference of P+D amalgams corresponds to a morphological difference: German amalgams are post-syntactic contractions while French amalgams are inflected prepositions that enter the syntax as a single unit.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. List of contributors vii
  4. Comparative Germanic Syntax ix
  5. Modal complement ellipsis 1
  6. On the adverbial reading of infrequency adjectives and the structure of the DP 35
  7. Crossing the lake 67
  8. Preposition-determiner amalgams in German and French at the syntax-morphology interface 99
  9. Conditional clauses, Main Clause Phenomena and the syntax of polarity emphasis 133
  10. Cross-Germanic variation in binding Condition B 169
  11. Development of sentential negation in the history of German 199
  12. Contact, animacy, and affectedness in Germanic 223
  13. Syntactic change in progress 249
  14. Cross Germanic variation in the realm of support verbs 279
  15. The shift to strict VO in English at the PF-interface 311
  16. Deriving reconstruction asymmetries in Across The Board by means of asymmetric extraction + ellipsis 353
  17. A morphologically guided matching approach to German(ic) relative constructions 387
  18. Index 415
Comparative Germanic Syntax
This chapter is in the book Comparative Germanic Syntax
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.191.04cab

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. List of contributors vii
  4. Comparative Germanic Syntax ix
  5. Modal complement ellipsis 1
  6. On the adverbial reading of infrequency adjectives and the structure of the DP 35
  7. Crossing the lake 67
  8. Preposition-determiner amalgams in German and French at the syntax-morphology interface 99
  9. Conditional clauses, Main Clause Phenomena and the syntax of polarity emphasis 133
  10. Cross-Germanic variation in binding Condition B 169
  11. Development of sentential negation in the history of German 199
  12. Contact, animacy, and affectedness in Germanic 223
  13. Syntactic change in progress 249
  14. Cross Germanic variation in the realm of support verbs 279
  15. The shift to strict VO in English at the PF-interface 311
  16. Deriving reconstruction asymmetries in Across The Board by means of asymmetric extraction + ellipsis 353
  17. A morphologically guided matching approach to German(ic) relative constructions 387
  18. Index 415
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