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On the locality of complement clause and relative clause extraposition

  • Berthold Crysmann
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Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective
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Abstract

In this paper, I shall discuss the locality restrictions of complement clause versus relative clause extraposition, contributing to a recent debate on the (non)locality of complement extraposition in German (Kiss 2005; Müller 2004). Based on an in-depth reexamination of the main evidence, I shall conclude that nonlocal complement extraposi­tion from deeply embedded complex NPs is possible in general, but differs from relative clause extraposition with respect to the semantic and prosodic licensing required. Together with the observation that the two constructions differ also with respect to adjunct islands and that extraposed relative clauses can attach to split antecedents, I shall conclude that relative clause extraposition is best conceived of as an anaphoric process, whereas nonlocal complement extraposition shares a great degree of similarity with leftward movement from NP.Finally, I shall provide a formal analysis of the two extraposition types that synthesises Kiss’s anaphoric approach to relative clause extraposition with Keller’s (1995) movement approach: Using a single percolation mechanism, common properties of both constructions can easily be captured, while differences in locality are accounted for by imposing different constraints on the amount of information being percolated.

Abstract

In this paper, I shall discuss the locality restrictions of complement clause versus relative clause extraposition, contributing to a recent debate on the (non)locality of complement extraposition in German (Kiss 2005; Müller 2004). Based on an in-depth reexamination of the main evidence, I shall conclude that nonlocal complement extraposi­tion from deeply embedded complex NPs is possible in general, but differs from relative clause extraposition with respect to the semantic and prosodic licensing required. Together with the observation that the two constructions differ also with respect to adjunct islands and that extraposed relative clauses can attach to split antecedents, I shall conclude that relative clause extraposition is best conceived of as an anaphoric process, whereas nonlocal complement extraposition shares a great degree of similarity with leftward movement from NP.Finally, I shall provide a formal analysis of the two extraposition types that synthesises Kiss’s anaphoric approach to relative clause extraposition with Keller’s (1995) movement approach: Using a single percolation mechanism, common properties of both constructions can easily be captured, while differences in locality are accounted for by imposing different constraints on the amount of information being percolated.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Introduction by the editors 1
  4. Part I. Empirical perspective
  5. Constraints on intra- and extraposition 63
  6. Subclausal locality constraints on relative clause extraposition 99
  7. Constraints on relative clause extraposition in English 145
  8. Part II. The Minimalist Perspective
  9. Rightward movement, EPP and specifiers 175
  10. Neglected cases of rightward movement 211
  11. Rightward movement from a different perspective 243
  12. Cumulative rightward processes 281
  13. Part III. Other Theoretical Perspectives
  14. A dynamic perspective on left-right asymmetries 321
  15. On the locality of complement clause and relative clause extraposition 369
  16. Part IV. The Prosodic Perspective
  17. Extraposition of defocused and light PPs in English 399
  18. Prosodic constraints on extraposition in German 439
  19. Index 473
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.200.13cry

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Introduction by the editors 1
  4. Part I. Empirical perspective
  5. Constraints on intra- and extraposition 63
  6. Subclausal locality constraints on relative clause extraposition 99
  7. Constraints on relative clause extraposition in English 145
  8. Part II. The Minimalist Perspective
  9. Rightward movement, EPP and specifiers 175
  10. Neglected cases of rightward movement 211
  11. Rightward movement from a different perspective 243
  12. Cumulative rightward processes 281
  13. Part III. Other Theoretical Perspectives
  14. A dynamic perspective on left-right asymmetries 321
  15. On the locality of complement clause and relative clause extraposition 369
  16. Part IV. The Prosodic Perspective
  17. Extraposition of defocused and light PPs in English 399
  18. Prosodic constraints on extraposition in German 439
  19. Index 473
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