Two kinds of reconstruction

Lechner, Winfried

doi:10.1111/1467-9582.00037

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“…(52) Example (i), with an [adverb-object] order, represents the base order and therefore allows only direct scope; example (ii) is the scrambled order and therefore allows both direct and inverse scope (the latter, under reconstruction of the object to its base position below the adverb). See Lechner (1998) for discussions on scope reconstruction as a result of scrambling.…”

Section: Preliminariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Verb doubling in Mandarin Chinese

Cheng

Vicente

2012

J East Asian Linguist

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This article examines two so-far-understudied verb doubling constructions in Mandarin Chinese, viz., verb doubling clefts and verb doubling lian…dou. We show that these constructions have the same internal syntax as regular clefts and lian…dou sentences, the doubling effect being epiphenomenal; therefore, we classify them as subtypes of the general cleft and lian…dou constructions, respectively, rather than as independent constructions. Additionally, we also show that, as in many other languages with comparable constructions, the two instances of the verb are part of a single movement chain, which has the peculiarity of allowing Spell-Out of more than one link.

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Section: Preliminariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Verb doubling in Mandarin Chinese

Cheng

Vicente

2012

J East Asian Linguist

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“…It has been noted that remnant movement creates scope islands, blocking elements inside the remnant from taking scope outside it (see, e.g., Barss 1986, Lechner 1998, Sauerland 1998). …”

Section: Deriving the Wh-scope Effectsmentioning

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Rightward Scrambling as Rightward Remnant Movement

Bhatt

Dayal

2007

Linguistic Inquiry

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Mahajan (1997) and Simpson and Bhattacharya (2003) analyze IndoAryan languages such as Hindi-Urdu and Bangla as SVO. We argue against this position, drawing on rightward scrambling in Hindi-Urdu to make this point. We propose an account of the phenomenon in terms of rightward remnant-VP movement. This account differs from proposals that posit rightward movement of individual arguments as well as from the antisymmetric proposals mentioned above, which treat rightward scrambling as argument stranding. Our rightward remnant movement analysis better captures two empirical properties of rightward scrambling that remain elusive in the other accounts: the correlation between linear order and scope, and restricted scope for rightwardscrambled wh-expressions.

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“…21 Here I put aside the precise mechanism of reconstruction process (e.g., whether reconstruction happens in syntax or in semantics). For the detailed discussion of how reconstruction is implemented, see Lechner (1998). 22 Fox (2003) assumes that this operation applies in the syntax, but since it violates Inclusiveness Condition, I assume that it is done during the syntax-semantics mapping, like insertion of k-nodes into the structure.…”

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Negative structure and object movement in Japanese

Shibata

2015

J East Asian Linguist

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This paper investigates negative structure in Japanese. The scope of Japanese negation appears to be narrower than that of English, which has led to different treatment of Japanese and English negation in the literature. I propose an analysis that maintains the same negative structure for Japanese and English. I demonstrate that all the scope facts regarding negative sentences in Japanese can be accounted for if we assume obligatory object movement into the TP-domain in Japanese, that is, the difference between Japanese and English is not the structural position of negation but the existence of this obligatory object movement in Japanese. The analysis also involves a discussion of scopal properties of certain elements such as focused or disjunctive phrases, which play a crucial role to determine the position of objects. Then I argue that the obligatory object movement in Japanese is driven by the need for accusative Case-particle licensing, on the basis of the observation that objects without a Case-particle are generally immobile in Japanese. I show that this analysis leads to a new perspective on A-scrambling in Japanese.

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Two kinds of reconstruction

Cited by 70 publications

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Verb doubling in Mandarin Chinese

Verb doubling in Mandarin Chinese

Rightward Scrambling as Rightward Remnant Movement

Negative structure and object movement in Japanese

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