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On the force of V2 declaratives

Author(s) -

HansMartin Gärtner

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

zas papers in linguistics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1435-9588

DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.23.2001.115

Subject(s) - subordination (linguistics) , anaphora (linguistics) , linguistics , german , computer science , dependent clause , resolution (logic) , modal , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , philosophy , chemistry , polymer chemistry , sentence

This paper discusses a variant of German V2 declaratives sharing properties with both subordinate relative clauses and main clauses. I argue that modal subordination failure helps decide between two rivaling accounts for this construction. Thus, a hypotactic analysis involving syntactic variable sharing must be preferred over parataxis plus anaphora resolution. The scopal behavior of the construction will be derived from its 'proto-assertional force,' which it shares with similar 'embedded root' constructions.

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