Cartography cannot express scrambling restrictions – but interface-driven relational approaches can
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Volker Struckmeier
Abstract
In this paper, a non-standard point of view is taken with regard to the syntactic implementation of scrambling in German: The standard view on this phenomenon seems to be that information structural (IS) functional heads, arranged above vP, trigger movements of DPs, PPs, etc., which are themselves equipped with a corresponding feature specification. In this paper, a different approach is taken: It is argued that restrictions hold mostly in the mapping of syntactic structures to the semantic and phonological interfaces - and IS features do not figure in these interface restrictions. Instead, restrictions over the prosodic, syntactic, and semantic relations, established as the outcomes of a derivation, restrict scrambling. This treatment, it will be shown, is theoretically and empirically preferable, and cannot be restated in cartographic terms.
Abstract
In this paper, a non-standard point of view is taken with regard to the syntactic implementation of scrambling in German: The standard view on this phenomenon seems to be that information structural (IS) functional heads, arranged above vP, trigger movements of DPs, PPs, etc., which are themselves equipped with a corresponding feature specification. In this paper, a different approach is taken: It is argued that restrictions hold mostly in the mapping of syntactic structures to the semantic and phonological interfaces - and IS features do not figure in these interface restrictions. Instead, restrictions over the prosodic, syntactic, and semantic relations, established as the outcomes of a derivation, restrict scrambling. This treatment, it will be shown, is theoretically and empirically preferable, and cannot be restated in cartographic terms.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Prosody in syntactic encoding 1
- Sentence stress in presidential speeches 17
- German case ambiguities at the interface: Production and comprehension 51
- Ambiguity resolution via the syntax-prosody interface: The case of kya ‘what’ in Urdu/Hindi 85
- Focus structure affects comparatives: Experimental and corpus work 119
- The ordering of interface mapping rules in German object fronting 159
- Interaction at the syntax–prosody interface 189
- Syntacticizing intonation? Tag questions in Glasgow Scots 219
- A prosodic constraint on prenominal modification 245
- Cartography cannot express scrambling restrictions – but interface-driven relational approaches can 265
- Head movement as a syntax-phonology interface phenomenon 303
- Index 331
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Prosody in syntactic encoding 1
- Sentence stress in presidential speeches 17
- German case ambiguities at the interface: Production and comprehension 51
- Ambiguity resolution via the syntax-prosody interface: The case of kya ‘what’ in Urdu/Hindi 85
- Focus structure affects comparatives: Experimental and corpus work 119
- The ordering of interface mapping rules in German object fronting 159
- Interaction at the syntax–prosody interface 189
- Syntacticizing intonation? Tag questions in Glasgow Scots 219
- A prosodic constraint on prenominal modification 245
- Cartography cannot express scrambling restrictions – but interface-driven relational approaches can 265
- Head movement as a syntax-phonology interface phenomenon 303
- Index 331
