Martin Salzmann
List of John Benjamins publications for which Martin Salzmann plays a role.
2013 New arguments for verb cluster formation at PF and a right-branching VP: Evidence from verb doubling and cluster penetrability Linguistic Variation 13:1, pp. 81–132 | Article
This paper provides new evidence that verb cluster formation in West Germanic takes place post-syntactically. Contrary to some previous accounts, I argue that cluster formation involves linearly adjacent morphosyntactic words and not syntactic sister nodes. The empirical evidence is drawn from… read more
2012 Crossing the lake: Motion verb constructions in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German Comparative Germanic Syntax: The state of the art, Ackema, Peter, Rhona Alcorn, Caroline Heycock, Dany Jaspers, Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (eds.), pp. 67–98 | Article
The Alemannic dialects spoken in Switzerland and in south-western Germany are structurally very similar. This seems to extend to the motion verb construction where the motion verb is obligatorily followed by an element gi/go followed by an infinitive. Upon closer inspection, however, intriguing… read more
2012 Deriving reconstruction asymmetries in Across The Board by means of asymmetric extraction + ellipsis Comparative Germanic Syntax: The state of the art, Ackema, Peter, Rhona Alcorn, Caroline Heycock, Dany Jaspers, Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (eds.), pp. 353–386 | Article
Zurich German is among the languages that can combine resumptive and gap derivations in Across The Board (ATB) contexts. There is clear evidence in Zurich German that gap and resumptive relatives involve different derivations: while gap relatives involve movement, resumptive relatives involve… read more
2009 When movement and base-generation compete: The definition of the reference set and parameterized preferences for elementary operations Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009, Botma, Bert and Jacqueline van Kampen (eds.), pp. 64–77 | Article
2006 Reconstruction in German restrictive relative clauses Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006, Weijer, Jeroen van de and Bettelou Los (eds.), pp. 186–198 | Article
2006 Long relativization in Zurich German as resumptive prolepsis Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax: From Afrikaans to Zurich German, Hartmann, Jutta M. and László Molnárfi (eds.), pp. 201–234 | Article