Scandinavian Object Shift: The Interface between Syntax, Phonology, and Information Structure

The Syntax - Phonology Interface *

The topic of the syntax-phonology interface is broad, encompassing different submodules of grammar and interactions of these. This chapter addresses one fundamental aspect of the syntax-phonology interface in detail: the relation between syntactic constituency and the prosodic constituent domains for sentence-level phonological and phonetic phenomena. Two further core aspects, which rely on an ...

Scandinavian Clause Structure and Object Shift

This paper focusses on the theory of clause structure in Icelandic, contrasting it along the way with that of another Scandinavian language, Swedish. I argue that LFG provides a very simple and appealing account of two distinguishing properties of Icelandic: (i) the presence of two apparent subject positions in the `Transitive Expletive' construction, and (ii) the phenomenon of `Object Shift', ...

Formal Approaches to The Interface of Syntax and Information Structure

• Introduction: What is information structure and basic notions • Historical development of information structure approaches (largely based on von Heusinger 1999, ch. 3) – The Beginnings of Information Structure – The Prague School – Halliday and the American structuralism – Information Packaging – Information Structure in Generative Grammar • The Semantics of Information Structure – Structured...

The Phonology-Syntax Interface in North Kyungsang Korean

Beyond the Apparent∗ Cognitive Parallels Between Syntax and Phonology

One of the central changes in 20th century linguistics was the reconceptualization of language as a cognitive ability rather than merely an abstract relational system of signs — in the terminology of Chomsky (1986), the move from E-language to I-language. This shift entails that linguistic theory is no longer measured exclusively by empirical coverage, succinctness of description, and conceptua...