This paper addresses two puzzles in the domain of verb cluster formation and proposes a solution in terms of rule ordering. The first puzzle is the socalled extraposition paradox where extraposition can target a VP that is part of a verb cluster only if the VP is topicalized but not when the VP remains clause-final. I propose that verb cluster formation takes place at PF under adjacency and thu...

1 The issue The topicalization of partial constituents in German has received much attention in the literature since the phenomenon is a serious challenge to the theory of constituency. In the HPSG paradigm, the attention has focussed on the topicalization of partial verb phrases. 1 But G. M uller (1993, 1996) and others discussed that partial constituent fronting in German also occurs with nom...

Among the syntactic changes that can be observed in transition from Old Norwegian to Modern are following word order changes: loss of OV order, object shift a VP containing verb (non-finite or any subordinate clause), preverbal preposition, and topicalization bare head. The fact these all seemto occurat same timeis not accidental. was arguably VO language, like Norwegian, but unlike also possib...

The beginning of the Lycian text TL 45 is restored with usual topicalization direct object, but verb not appearing until line 3. content sentence does corre-spond to first Greek version. In this version, title and names archonts Hieron Apollodotos, known from contemporary trilingual Letöon inscrip-tion (N 320), are in lines 6-7. 11-12 a version theonym Trbbãmara may be restored. 45B revised and...