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Nominal VP anaphora in Scandinavian and English J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Andrew Weir
This paper investigates the properties of nominal phrases and demonstratives used as verbal anaphora in Norwegian, Danish, English, and Scots-English, e.g. English Can John make good curry? – That he can; Norwegian Anja ligger godt an, det samme gjør Madelène lit. ‘Anja is in a good position, Madelène does the same [thing]’. Following Lødrup (Proceedings of NELS 24, 1994), Houser et al. (Proceedings
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Unmarkedness of the coronal nasal in Alemannic J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Erin Noelliste, Tyler Kniess
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Root participles: directive, commissive, expressive and representative participles in Germanic root configurations J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Dennis Wegner
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The morphosyntax of Gothic preverb compounds: incorporation and applicativisation J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Tamisha L. Tan
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Root suppletion in Swedish as contextual allomorphy J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Luke James Adamson
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The acquisition of grammatical alternates: a comparison of Italian and Norwegian possessives J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Marta Velnić
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Giving content to expletive es in German J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Roland Hinterhölzl
The present paper proposes an alternative analysis of so-called expletive es in German. It is argued that es has semantic content that serves to anchor the utterance in the context. In particular, I argue that es constitutes a weak demonstrative element binding a situation argument. The account gets rid of the assumption that the relevant head in the clause is endowed with an EPP-feature and restores
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Definiteness marking in American Norwegian: a unique pattern among the Scandinavian languages J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Yvonne van Baal
This paper examines definiteness marking in American Norwegian (AmNo), a heritage variety of Norwegian spoken in the US. The description adds another language to the much-studied variation within Scandinavian nominal phrases. It builds on established syntactic analysis of Scandinavian and investigates aspects that are (un)like Norwegian spoken in the homeland. A central finding is that the core syntax
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Ordering discontinuous $$\varvec{\varphi }$$ -feature agree: verbal -s in North Eastern English J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Rosa Fritzsche
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Phrasal Proper Names in German and Norwegian J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-09 Marit Julien, Dorian Roehrs
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Open syllable lengthening and diphthongisation in Upper Middle High German: evidence from verse J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Joshua Booth
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Two structures of extraposition in central dialects of Early New High German J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Aleksandra Belkind
Extraposition in OV Germanic languages is a complicated phenomenon, which has been analyzed in different ways—as a result of rightward movement, as base generation of extraposing items to the right, and as a result of raising of predicative elements. The most common type of item in extraposition is CP, but also PPs and heavy adjuncts are attested in extraposition in Modern German. Early New High German
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Germanic diminutives: a case study of a gap in Norwegian J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Artemis Alexiadou, Terje Lohndal
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Word-order variation and coherence in German infinitival complementation J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Sina Bosch, Ilaria De Cesare, Ulrike Demske, Claudia Felser
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Dutch specCP-expletives are main clause complementizers J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
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In the thick of it: scope rivalry in past counterfactuals of Pomerano J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Göz Kaufmann
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Being as big as small clauses get: the syntax of participial adjuncts in German and English J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Kristin Klubbo Brodahl
This paper presents a comparative syntactic account of participial adjuncts in German and English. While the typological literature describes German participial adjuncts as much more restricted than their English counterparts both syntactically and semantically, this paper presents empirical evidence that these differences have been exaggerated. Based on a corpus of more than 3000 participial adjuncts
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The pragmatics and syntax of pronoun preposing J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-28 Filippa Lindahl, Elisabet Engdahl
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German measurement structures: case-marking and non-conservativity J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Robert Pasternak, Uli Sauerland
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Syntactic conditions on cumulative readings of German jeder ‘every’ DPs J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-06 Nina Haslinger, Viola Schmitt
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Adjunct control in German, Norwegian, and English J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Silke Fischer, Inghild Flaate Høyem
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Expressions of genericity in Mainland Scandinavian languages J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-25 Dominika Skrzypek, Anna Kurek-Przybilski, Alicja Piotrowska
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Information structure and OV word order in Old and Middle English: a phase-based approach J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Tara Struik, Ans van Kemenade
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Dutch preposition stranding and ellipsis: ‘Merchant’s Wrinkle’ ironed out J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-11-05 James Griffiths, Güliz Güneş, Anikó Lipták, Jason Merchant
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Rightward verb movement: A reappraisal J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-09-23 Andrew Murphy
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Variations on what for in the history of English J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-08-18 Elly van Gelderen
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Overextension in Gottscheerisch (negative) imperatives: proclisis at the edge of the first phase J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-06-07 Michael T. Putnam, Andrew D. Hoffman
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Licensing imperative subjects without an imperative operator J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-05-15 Astrid van Alem
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Explaining Siewierska’s generalization J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Peter Hallman
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How theoretical is your (historical) syntax? Towards a typology of Verb-Third in Early Old High German J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-04-22 Nicholas Catasso
Verb-Third (V3) constructions, i.e. root clauses displaying more than one element in their prefield, have been attested throughout the history of German. In this paper, I discuss some methodological issues related to the investigation of this structure in Early Old High German (EOHG, eighth to ninth century). In this language stage, the linear syntax of matrix clauses is very unstable—mainly due to
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Verb movement and the lack of verb-doubling VP-topicalization in Germanic J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-04-03 Johannes Hein
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The syntax and semantics of Swedish copular sentences: a comparative perspective J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Kajsa Djärv
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How cool is that! A new ‘construction’ and its theoretical challenges J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Andreas Trotzke
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Complete loss of case and gender within two generations: evidence from Stamford Hill Hasidic Yiddish J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Zoë Belk, Lily Kahn, Kriszta Eszter Szendrői
Yiddish was the everyday language spoken by most Central and East European Jews during the last millennium. As a result of the extreme loss of speakers during the Holocaust, subsequent geographic dispersal, and lack of institutional support, Yiddish is now an endangered language. Yet it continues to be a native and daily language for Haredi (strictly Orthodox) Jews, who live in close-knit communities
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Indeterminate pronouns in Old English: a compositional semantic analysis J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2020-10-12 Sigrid Beck
Indeterminate pronouns in Old English (expressions like hwa ‘who/what’ and hwelc ‘which’) permit several interpretations in addition to their use as interrogative pronouns, for example readings as universal or existential quantifiers. They combine with morphological prefixes (ge- ‘and, also’ and a- ‘always, ever’), which change the range of possible interpretations. Old English indeterminate pronouns
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Intonation Phrase formation in sentences with clausal embedding J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Fabian Schubö
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German V2 and Doubly Filled COMP in West Germanic J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2020-08-11 Julia Bacskai-Atkari
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Stability and attrition in American Norwegian nominals: a view from predicate nouns J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2020-04-24 Kari Kinn
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Factors influencing the acceptability of object fronting in German J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2020-04-08 Marta Wierzba, Gisbert Fanselow
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Variation in reference assignment processes: psycholinguistic evidence from Germanic languages J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2020-01-03 Esther Ruigendijk, Petra B. Schumacher
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(The) polar bears are pink. How (the) Germans interpret (the) definite articles in plural subject DPs J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2019-10-03 Anna Czypionka, Tanja Kupisch
According to the literature, German optionally allows a definite article with generic nominals, whereas other Germanic languages require a bare nominal (e.g., English Polar bears are white). This optionality makes German different from other Germanic languages and more similar to Romance languages, in which definite articles are obligatory with generic nominals in subject positions. Since article use
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Illusions of transitive expletives in Middle English J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2019-09-25 Elizabeth Cowper, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Daniel Currie Hall, Rebecca Tollan, Neil Banerjee
This paper examines a type of existential there sentence found in Middle English that has been argued to have a structure similar to transitive expletive constructions (TECs) in other Germanic languages, or to follow from the presence of NegP below T during the relevant period. Based on an exhaustive analysis of the 74 examples of this construction found in the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English
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The loss of feminine gender in Norwegian: a dialect comparison J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2019-07-08 Guro Busterud, Terje Lohndal, Yulia Rodina, Marit Westergaard
It is well known that grammatical gender systems may change historically. Previous research has documented loss of the feminine gender in several Norwegian dialects, including those spoken in Oslo and Tromsø (Lødrup in Maal og Minne 2:120–136, 2011; Rodina and Westergaard in J Ger Linguist 27(2):145–187 2015). In these dialects, the change is characterized by replacement of the feminine indefinite
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A comparison of Norwegian and Spanish L1 acquisition of possessive constructions J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2019-07-04 Antonio Fábregas, Merete Anderssen, Marit Westergaard
In language acquisition studies, there is a recurring debate regarding how to account for non-target-consistent utterances produced by young children. Anderssen and Westergaard (Lingua 120:2569–2588, 2010) study the acquisition of Norwegian possessives, which may be pre- or postnominal, and find that children overuse prenominal possessives, even though they are considerably less frequent than postnominal
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Language mixing within verbs and nouns in American Norwegian J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2019-06-29 Brita Ramsevik Riksem, Maren Berg Grimstad, Terje Lohndal, Tor A. Åfarli
This paper presents case-studies of language mixing within verbs and nouns in the heritage language American Norwegian, which refers to varieties spoken by Norwegian immigrants to the US and their descendants. The paper builds on data from the newly established Corpus of American Norwegian Speech and argues in favor of an exoskeletal approach to language mixing. This approach distinguishes between
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Introduction from our guest editors J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2019-06-28 Björn Lundquist,Anne Dahl
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The form and position of pronominal objects with non-nominal antecedents in Scandinavian and German J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2019-06-28 Kristine Bentzen, Merete Anderssen
The present paper discusses a possible correlation between the placement of pronominal objects with non-nominal antecedents in Norwegian, and the use of the pronouns es ‘it’ and das ‘that’ in German. For Norwegian object shift (OS), it has been shown that while pronominal objects with non-nominal antecedents generally do not shift, this is not the case when these elements take on the discourse function
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Displaced morphology in German verb clusters: an argument for post-syntactic morphology J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2019-03-20 Martin Salzmann
In this paper I will provide a new argument for post-syntactic morphology. The empirical evidence comes from so-called displaced morphology in German verb clusters, where the non-finite verb form selected by a given governor does not appear on the immediately dependent verb but rather on the linearly last verb of the selector’s complement. The placement of the morphology thus partly depends on linear
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On the limits of variation in Continental West-Germanic verb clusters: evidence from VP-stranding, extraposition and displaced morphology for the existence of clusters with 213 order J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2019-03-19 Martin Salzmann
Recent work on verb clusters within Continental West-Germanic has argued in favor of restrictive theories of cluster orders that only generate a subset of the logically possible orders in three-verb clusters, explicitly ruling out the 213 order. In this context it is remarkable that Swiss German features a verb cluster-like construction with an unmarked 213 order. I will argue that this construction
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Pronominal inflection and NP ellipsis in German J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2018-10-20 Andrew Murphy
Indefinite and possessive pronouns in German such as ein-es ‘one’ and mein-er ‘mine’ bear strong inflectional endings unlike their determiner counterparts. Following Saab and Lipták (Stud Linguist 70(1):66–108, 2016), I argue that this difference in inflection is due to NP ellipsis, which creates a ‘stranded’ affix that subsequently docks onto the determiner. Assuming that adjectives are reattached
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How impersonal does one get? J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2018-10-03 Paula Fenger
This paper focuses on overt impersonal pronouns such as English one and Dutch men in eight Germanic languages (English, Frisian, Icelandic, Danish, Dutch, German, Norwegian and Swedish). Cinque (Linguist Inq 19:521–581, 1988), Egerland (Work Pap Scand Syntax 71:75–102, 2003), a.o., argued that there are two types of impersonal pronouns: one type that can occur in multiple syntactic positions but can
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Complex quantifiers with genitive and concord in Old English and beyond J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2018-09-06 Dorian Roehrs, Christopher Sapp
In this paper, we establish the empirical correlation that in Old English, the morphology on the quantified element is related to the morpho-syntactic status of the quantifier. While quantified DPs are always in the genitive, quantified non-DPs vary between genitive and concord based on the status of the quantifier. The quantifiers that take only genitive dependents contain uninflected particles and
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Inverse Case attraction: experimental evidence for a syntactically guided process J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2018-07-01 Anna Czypionka, Laura Dörre, Josef Bayer
In progressive Case attraction, the Case of a head nominal overwrites the Case of a following coindexed relative pronoun. The reverse process is called ‘inverse’ Case attraction. There, the morphologically overt Case of a relative pronoun overwrites the Case of a preceding head nominal. Inverse Case attraction has been attested in languages like Ancient Greek, Latin, and in the history of different
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The Matching Analysis of relative clauses: an argument from antipronominal contexts J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2018-06-22 Andreas Pankau
This paper provides a novel argument for the Matching Analysis of relative clauses. The argument is based on antipronominal contexts in German. Antipronominal contexts are syntactic environments that require lexical DPs and therefore bar pronouns. It is argued that the behavior of relative clauses in antipronominal contexts in German points to two conclusions. First, relative pronouns contain a phonologically
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Super light-headed relatives, missing prepositions, and span-conditioned allomorphy in German J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2018-06-19 Emily A. Hanink
The ‘missing-P’ phenomenon (Bresnan and Grimshaw in Linguist Inq 9:331–391, 1978) refers to free relative constructions in which one of two prepositions appears to be missing. This paper provides an account of free relatives in German that straightforwardly extends to this phenomenon, drawing on evidence from standard free relatives as well as from previously undiscussed free relatives in East Franconian
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An OT analysis of do-support across varieties of German J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2018-04-01 Thilo Weber
Just like most varieties of West Germanic, virtually all varieties of German use a construction in which a cognate of the English verb do (standard German tun) functions as an auxiliary and selects another verb in the bare infinitive, a construction known as do-periphrasis or do-support. The present paper provides an Optimality Theoretic (OT) analysis of this phenomenon. It builds on a previous analysis
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West Flemish V3 and the interaction of syntax and discourse J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2018-03-21 Liliane Haegeman, Ciro Greco
The empirical focus of this paper is what looks like a verb third (V3) pattern in West Flemish (WF) in which an adverbial modifier (typically a temporal or conditional adjunct) is followed by a non-inverted subject-initial verb second (V2) root clause. This pattern will be referred to as the non-inverted V3 pattern. This paper has two goals. The first and major aim is to document the WF non-inverted
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Frisian strong and weak verbs in the face of Dutch influence: a synchronic and experimental approach J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2018-03-13 Remco Knooihuizen, Odile A. O. Strik, Gerbrich de Jong
Like other Germanic languages, Frisian has both strong and weak verbal inflection. Despite a strong diachronic tendency for change towards weak inflection, strong inflection patterns are available synchronically to speakers to form the past tense and past participle of new or nonce verbs. Using a measure for ‘potential productivity’ developed by Knooihuizen and Strik (Folia Linguist Hist 35:173–200
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Let middles in Dutch and German: False friends? J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2017-10-01 Toshiaki Oya
This paper provides a contrastive study of the so-called let middles between Dutch and German. It is argued that the subject of Dutch let middles is merged as the external argument of the matrix predicate laten ‘let’ and that the reflexive pronoun zich is merged as an embedded predicate’s thematic internal argument. By contrast, the reflexive sich in German let middles—as convincingly argued by Pitteroff
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Adjectival inflection as diagnostic for structural position: inside and outside the Icelandic definiteness domain J. Comp. Ger. Linguist. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2017-09-25 Alexander Pfaff
This article attempts to account for the distribution of Icelandic adjectival inflection in a manner that also captures a problematic case that has not been satisfactorily analyzed in the literature. It is argued that weak inflection is triggered if the adjective is c-commanded by a feature [definite]. Strong inflection occurs precisely if weak inflection is not triggered. This implementation accounts