Partizipialkonstruktionen und freie Fügungen am Satzanfang mit und ohne Subjektbezug

Starke, Günter

doi:10.37307/j.2198-2430.1996.01.03

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“…The assumption that seemingly subjectless participial adjuncts do in fact contain a PRO subject is in line with standard generative theory following Chomsky (1981). 47 Empirical evidence for this comes from the presence of anaphors in the adjuncts, which must be bound by a local subject (see also Thure ´n 2008;Brodahl 2016Brodahl , 2018Brodahl , 2020Høyem and Brodahl 2019 As explored in detail by Kortmann (1991) for English and Starke (1996Starke ( , 1999, Brodahl (2016Brodahl ( , 2018 and Høyem and Brodahl (2019) for German, the PRO subject of participial adjuncts can be controlled by a range of different antecedents inside or outside the matrix clause, but the by far most common control relation is subject control. In the corpus of the current study, 86.3% of the English free adjuncts display subject control, while the same is the case for 70.2% of the German free adjuncts.…”

Section: Control In Free Adjunctsmentioning

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Being as big as small clauses get: the syntax of participial adjuncts in German and English

Brodahl

2022

J Comp German Linguistics

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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, it is argued that these adjuncts have a clause-like internal structure in both languages. Participial adjuncts are analysed as small clauses that can project all the way up to CP level, with a subject that is either phonetically null PRO controlled via Agree or an overt DP that is case licensed either by an element outside the participial clause or through default case. At the same time, the corpus data show that these participial constructions constitute a versatile group of adjuncts when it comes to their argument-structural properties and categorial nature. An analysis couched within the framework of Distributed Morphology is presented that can account for this diversity. This empirically based and theoretically founded account of participial adjuncts contributes to our understanding of the structural possibilities of small clauses cross-linguistically.

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Section: Control In Free Adjunctsmentioning

confidence: 71%

Being as big as small clauses get: the syntax of participial adjuncts in German and English

Brodahl

2022

J Comp German Linguistics

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Partizipialkonstruktionen und freie Fügungen am Satzanfang mit und ohne Subjektbezug

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Being as big as small clauses get: the syntax of participial adjuncts in German and English

Being as big as small clauses get: the syntax of participial adjuncts in German and English

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