Clausal Architecture And Subject Positions: Impersonal Constructions in the Germanic Languages (Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics Today, Volume 88)

Clausal Architecture and Subject Positions......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 9
I. Introduction......Page 10
0. Introduction......Page 12
II. Clausal architecture and the EPP......Page 18
1.1 From principle to feature – the history of the EPP in the works of Chomsky......Page 20
1.2 From deconstruction to cartography – subject positions and their features......Page 29
1.3 Universality reconsidered – the EPP as a parameter......Page 41
2.1.1 Some data......Page 49
2.1.2 Different ways of realising head-positions......Page 51
2.2.1 The Extension Condition and Chomsky’s objections......Page 53
2.2.2 Head-movement and the interfaces......Page 54
2.2.3 Does head-movement exist after all?......Page 57
2.3 Head-movement and the Extension Condition – how can these two be reconciled?......Page 59
3. Clause structure......Page 64
3.1.1 Sentence-initial XPs in V2 clauses and their positions......Page 65
3.1.2 Locality and why the finite verb in Fin can only be preceded by one XP......Page 71
3.2.1 Overview......Page 76
3.2.2 TopP, FocP and Scrambling......Page 77
3.2.3 Two subject positions in the Mittelfeld......Page 79
3.2.4 RefP and the EPP......Page 80
3.3 The projections of the V-system......Page 81
4.1 Types of features......Page 86
4.2 Matching features......Page 87
4.3.1 Specifier-head configuration......Page 88
4.3.2 Checking in a head-head configuration and types of V-movement......Page 92
4.3.3 Consequences of the restrictions on checking – Scrambling vs. Object Shift and a note on typology......Page 106
5.1.1 Nominative Case......Page 111
5.1.2 T and the New Extension Condition......Page 112
5.2 The EPP-feature as a subject-of-predication feature?......Page 115
6. Summary......Page 119
III. Impersonal constructions and subject positions......Page 122
7.1.1 Presentational sentences......Page 124
7.1.2 Impersonal passives......Page 128
7.2.1 Expletives everywhere......Page 131
7.2.2 Against non-overt expletives......Page 134
7.3 Locatives in Small Clauses......Page 136
7.4 Positions and movements involved in the derivation of TECs......Page 138
8.1 Not all of the alleged expletives can be expletives......Page 143
8.2 Event arguments......Page 145
8.3.1 Presentational sentences and impersonal passives as expletive constructions - German......Page 146
8.3.2 Event arguments mistaken for expletives – Dutch......Page 152
8.3.3 Some remarks on German ‘da’......Page 155
8.4 Afrikaans......Page 158
8.5 Yiddish......Page 162
8.6 Icelandic......Page 164
8.7 Mainland Scandinavian......Page 168
8.8.1 The ‘there’-construction as a focus construction......Page 172
8.8.2 The Case of the subject DP......Page 176
8.8.3 Impersonal passives......Page 179
8.8.4 Locative Inversion......Page 180
9.1.1 German, Dutch, Afrikaans, MSc and English......Page 184
9.2 Impersonal psych verbs......Page 192
9.1.2 Icelandic......Page 186
9.1.3 Yiddish......Page 188
10. Summary......Page 198
IV. Conclusion......Page 202
11. Conclusion......Page 204
References......Page 208
Index......Page 214
The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today......Page 217