Verbal Complexes

by Hilda Koopman and Anna Szabolcsi

• ISBN13: 9780262611541
• ISBN10: 0262611546
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-13
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

In this book Hilda Koopman and Anna Szabolcsi propose a unified analysis of restructuring constructions in Hungarian, Dutch, and German that involves only overt phrasal movement and derives variation from the varying sizes of pied piping constituents. Restructuring verbs in Hungarian exhibit three patterns: the will begin up-climband the up will begin climborders common in Dutch and the up-climb begin willorder common in German. Traditionally these have been analyzed as involving no movement (or covert movement), phrasal movement, and head movement, respectively. The first goal of this book is to develop a unified analysis where (1) the same features are checked in all three orders, (2) all feature checking is achieved by overt movement, and (3) all three types involve phrasal movement. The second goal is to account for the significant variation across Hungarian, Dutch, and German, which is argued to arise from the varying sizes of the constituents pied piped in the course of movement. In addition to its novel theoretical claims, the book presents the first systematic description of Hungarian complex verbs and the first comparison of West-Germanic and Hungarian. Current Studies in Linguistics No. 34

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(6)
The Phenomenon	1	(2)
Theoretical Assumptions	3	(4)
Background Information on Hungarian	7	(8)
Functional Projections in Hungarian	7	(2)
How High Is the Finite Verb?	9	(1)
Separable Prefixes in Neutral and Nonneutral Sentences	10	(2)
The Organization of the Discussion of Hungarian	12	(3)
Inversion: Why XP-Movement?	15	(16)
The Basic Patterns	15	(2)
Head Movement or XP-Movement: The Structure of the Argument	17	(1)
The Plausibility of the Head Movement Analysis	18	(1)
The Insufficiency of a Pure Head Movement Analysis	19	(2)
The Redundancy of Head Movement: Evidence from VM-Climbing	21	(3)
The Redundancy of Head Movement: Evidence from Focusing	24	(1)
The Fallacy of the Head Movement Analysis	25	(6)
The XP-Movement Analysis	31	(48)
The Basic Idea of the XP-Movement Analysis	31	(6)
General Assumptions	37	(8)
Inverted Order: A Preliminary Sample Derivation	45	(8)
PredP, the Trigger of English Orders	53	(8)
Inverted Order: Updating the Derivation with PredP	61	(1)
English Order: A Sample Derivation	62	(11)
VP+ Is Present in All Clauses	73	(6)
Evidence from Related Constructions	79	(32)
Evidence for Constituent Structure: Scrambling and Focusing	79	(7)
VM-Climbing in Neutral Sentences	86	(18)
Nonauxiliary Infinitival Complement Takers	104	(7)
Are Infinitival Clauses Full CPs?	111	(16)
Auxiliaries with Subjunctive Complements	112	(6)
Operator Projections	118	(3)
Transparency Effects: Object Agreement Climbing	121	(1)
Transparency Effects: Co-occurrence Restrictions	122	(3)
Conclusion	125	(2)
The Structure of Dutch	127	(12)
Introduction	127	(1)
Standard Assumptions about the Structure of Dutch	127	(1)
The Position of the Finite Verb	128	(2)
The Pre-V Domain	130	(1)
The Position of Negation	131	(1)
The Position of Focus	131	(2)
The Prefocus Field	133	(1)
The Position of Small Clauses, Incorporated Particles, Nouns, and Adjectives	134	(2)
The Distribution of CPs	136	(1)
Summary	137	(2)
Dutch and German Verbal Complexes	139	(50)
Introduction	139	(2)
Background Information on Dutch Restructuring Verbs	141	(1)
Infinitival Sequences	142	(1)
Simple Patterns	143	(16)
More Complex Patterns	159	(7)
Te- and Zu-Infinitives	166	(5)
Dutch and German: German Verbal Complexes	171	(1)
Excluding other Infinitival Patterns	172	(3)
Participles	175	(7)
The IPP Effect in German: CP Pied-Piping with or without VP+/VP Splitting	182	(3)
Summary and Discussion: Why CP Pied-Piping or VP+ Splitting?	185	(4)
Appendix A Reference Guide	189	(6)
A.1 General Assumptions	189	(1)
A.2 Assumptions Pertaining to Verbs and Verbal Complexes	190	(2)
A.3 Assumptions Pertaining to Dutch and German	192	(3)
Appendix B Hungarian Database	195	(24)
B.1 Functional Projections in the Hungarian Preverbal Field	195	(8)
B.2 Verbal Complexes	203	(16)
Notes	219	(14)
References	233	(8)
Index	241