Ergativity in German

Contents
Preface ix
Chapter 1. The Ergative Hypothesis 1
Chapter 2. The Justification of the Ergative Hypothesis: Its Syntactic
Predictions 5
2.1. #e-Cliticization and Auxiliary Selection in Italian 5
2.2. Auxiliary Selection in German 8
2.3. Participles as Attributes 18
2.4. Impersonal Passive - Agentive von (by)-PP 21
2.5. Derivational Morphology: -er and -ling Nominalizations 21
2.6. Topicalization of Subject + Participle II 23
2.7. Discontinuous Phrases 26
2.8. Extraction from NP Subjects 34
2.9. Extraction from Subject Sentences 48
2.10. Extraction and Extraposition 65
2.11. Extraction of Subjects 87
2.12. Dative 91
2.13. Control 94
2.14. Focus 96
2.15. Reflexives in A.c.I.-Constructions 97
Chapter 3. The Inverted Subject Position and the Case Assignment Problem 109
3.1. The First Two Versions of the 'pro-drop' Parameter 109
3.2. pro and the Third and Fourth Versions of the pro-àrop
Parameter 123
3.3. Case Assignment to "Inverted" Subjects in German 134
3.4. pro Subjects in German 145
3.5. The Definiteness Effect 164
Chapter 4. Ergative Verbs and "Theme Verbs" 177
4.1. The Ergativity Tests 177
4.2. "Subject Inversion" and Non-Ergative Verbs 188
4.3. "Subject Inversion" and Focus 203
References 221