Article published in:
Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic VariationEdited by Ermenegildo Bidese, Federica Cognola and Manuela Caterina Moroni
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 234] 2016
► pp. 177–202
On the variable nature of head final effects in German and English
An interface account
Roland Hinterhölzl | University Ca' Foscari of Venice
The paper investigates head final effects (HF-effects) in German and English and argues that the syntactic configuration that underlies them gives rise to three different types of violations in the interfaces. It is shown that HF-effects are either morphological or prosodic in nature. A diagnostics – morphological versus syntactic displacement – is established that allows to connect HF-effects to their relevant interface conditions. The prosodic conditions on word order are then argued to be twofold: they involve a condition on heavy constituents, on the one hand, and a condition on the mapping of syntactic constituents onto prosodic constituents respecting the Strict Layer Hypothesis, on the other hand. Finally, I argue that a pure syntactic condition, like the Final-over-Final Constraint proposed by Biberauer, Holmberg and Roberts (2007 and 2014) is inedaquate to account for the variable nature of HF-effects.
Published online: 01 December 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.234.07hin
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.234.07hin
References
References
Biberauer, Theresa, Holmberg, Anders and Roberts, Ian
2007 Structure and linearization in disharmonic word orders. In
Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics
, University of California. Berkeley: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Djamouri, Redouane, Paul, Waltraud and Withman, John
Escribano, Juan
Haider, Hubert
Halle, Morris and Marantz, Alex
Hinterhölzl, Roland
Hinterholzl, Roland
Höhle, Tilman N.
Kayne, Richard
Krifka, Manfred
Ladd, Robert D.
Nespor, Marina, et al.
Paul, Waltraud
Peperkamp, Sharon
Salzmann, Martin
Selkirk, Elizabeth
Truckenbrodt, Hubert
van Riemsdijk, Henk
Wagner, Michael
Wiklund, Anna-Lena