How Phonological is Object Shift?
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Peter Svenonius
Abstract
The papers here represent very different analyses of Object Shift (OS), and take very different positions on the interaction of phonology and syntax, an area in which there are many unsettled questions.
Mainstream work tends to hold that syntax is blind to phonological content, with certain exceptions, for example sometimes phonetically null elements require special syntactic licensing (Chomsky 1981), or certain syntactic rules only apply to nodes with phonetically visible features (Holmberg 2001). Basically falling within the mainstream are proposals that syntactic movement can be blocked by or driven by requirements that have phonological effect at the output, such as adjacency (Bobaljik 1995, Kidwai 1999) or rules matching prosodic structure with focus structure (Zubizarreta 1998). Such accounts generally describe movements in the syntactic terms of specifiers and feature checking and so on, and do not rely on the visibility to syntax of strictly phonological features. We can call these all Syntactic accounts. Most accounts of OS are Syntactic in these terms, for example those of Holmberg (1986), Holmberg and Platzack (1995), and Bobaljik (1995, 2002).
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Cyclic Linearization of Syntactic Structure
- Sound Patterns of Syntax: Object Shift
- Holmberg’s Generalization and Cyclic Linearization. Remarks on Fox and Pesetsky
- Re: CycLin and the role of PF in Object Shift
- Some Remarks on Fox and Pesetsky: ‘‘Cyclic Linearization of Syntactic Structure’’
- Comments on Erteschik-Shir’s article
- Linearization in two ways
- Remarks on cyclic linearization and order preservation
- Some notes on cyclic linearization
- Comments on Object Shift and Cyclic Linearization
- Object Shift and linearization at the PF interface
- How Phonological is Object Shift?
- A Note on ‘‘Cyclic Linearization’’
- Cyclic Linearization and its interaction with other aspects of grammar: a reply
- What is Syntax?
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Cyclic Linearization of Syntactic Structure
- Sound Patterns of Syntax: Object Shift
- Holmberg’s Generalization and Cyclic Linearization. Remarks on Fox and Pesetsky
- Re: CycLin and the role of PF in Object Shift
- Some Remarks on Fox and Pesetsky: ‘‘Cyclic Linearization of Syntactic Structure’’
- Comments on Erteschik-Shir’s article
- Linearization in two ways
- Remarks on cyclic linearization and order preservation
- Some notes on cyclic linearization
- Comments on Object Shift and Cyclic Linearization
- Object Shift and linearization at the PF interface
- How Phonological is Object Shift?
- A Note on ‘‘Cyclic Linearization’’
- Cyclic Linearization and its interaction with other aspects of grammar: a reply
- What is Syntax?
