Structures of ‘emphatic topicalization’ in Bavarian

Chapter 4. Invariant die and adverbial resumption in the Ghent dialect

“…At this point there seem to be no restrictions on the nature of what would be the offending trace and the analysis in De Clercq and Haegeman (2018) also does not make any suggestions as to the properties or features of die that would be at stake in the alleviation of the alleged dat-trace violation. 21 For completeness 'sake we acknowledge that the hypothesis that die is a LP head does not as such preclude a movement analysis whereby die or some component originates TP-internally and moves to the LP in the spirit of a d-complementizer in Germanic (Leu 2015) or the analysis of emphatic topicalization in Bavarian (Lutz 2014) in Samo (2019: 172). However, as far as we can see, the Ghent data do not provide any specific empirical evidence in favour of any of these approaches.…”

A Criterial Approach to the Cartography of V2

“…Not only dass, but also other subordinators can co-occur with "emphatic topicalization".As depicted byLutz (2014), a topicalized element which is not a Hanging Topic 69 precedes the complementizer wane 'if + 1ps', since it is not resumed by any resumptive pronouns or epithets of the IP of the embedded clause.…”