Verb movement and the lack of verb-doubling VP-topicalization in Germanic

Subjects, Tense and Verb-Movement in Germanic and Romance

This paper takes a closer look at the attraction properties of T. It highlights an empirically attested distinction between rich agreement inflection, exhibited by null-subject languages, and rich tense inflection, found in Romance, but not Germanic, and argues for the syntactic relevance of this distinction. We propose a novel typology of the ways in which T's featural requirements can be sati...

Linearization of Verb Clusters in West Germanic

Verb - Second as vP - First

In this article, I argue for a remnant movement approach to German V/2 constructions that does not employ head movement at any step of the derivation: The pre-V/2 (topic) position and the V/2 position collapse into a single fronted remnant vP. The central theoretical innovation is a constraint on the movement of phases: The Edge Domain Pied Piping Condition (EPC) permits vP movement only if vP ...

Verb Clusters in Continental West Germanic Dialects

The Continental West Germanic Languages include the standard varieties of Dutch, Frisian, and High German, as well as a large number of non-standard varieties, the more familiar of which are the dialects spoken in Belgium and the South of the Netherlands (Flemish, Brabantish, Limburgian), Northern Germany (Low German), the Rhine Valley (Luxemburgish), South-Eastern Germany and Austria (e.g. Bav...

‏‎the description of verb phrase of dezfuli dialect‎‏

شهرستان دزفول در بخش شمالغربی خوزستان با مساحت 4700 کیلومتر مربع و جمعیت 380416 (1375 ) واقع شده است . دزفولیها به گویش دزفولی تکلم می کنند ، گویشی که جز دسته جنوبی زبانهای ایرانی است . در این پایان نامه نویسنده قصد دارد گروه فعلی گویش دزفولی را توصیف کند. همچنین به بحث در باره ریشه فعلی و ستاک های مختلف ، ساخت سببی ، فعل های منظم و نامنظم ، ویژگیهای فعل مانند زمان ، وجه و نمود می پردازد در فصل...