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Swedish VP-Topicalization and Yiddish Verb-Topicalization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Gunnel Källgren  and
Ellen F. Prince
Gunnel Källgren
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Stockholm, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden;
Ellen F. Prince
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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Abstract

In this paper, we consider Swedish Finite VP-Topicalization and Yiddish Finite-Verb Topicalization, which share certain interesting features that have implications for Germanic syntax and for syntactic theory in general. Although neither construction contains a gap, we argue that both are products of Movement, but with a lexically realized trace, and that this phenomenon is crucially related to Movement of finite verbs. The arguments are based on the distribution of aspectual types, lexical and phonological phenomena, the V/2 Constraint, Subjacency, and discourse phenomena.

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Research Article
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , June 1989 , pp. 47 - 58
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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