Vortrag: Colloquial Upper Sorbian and the Sentence Bracket

Sketching a Minimalist Analysis

In Colloquial Upper Sorbian, a variety of Sorbian spoken in upper Lusatia, sentences which utilize auxiliary verbs usually exhibit a Sentence Bracket. This syntactic configuration is characterized by an auxiliary in an early position which is separated by other constituents from the main verb in a late (often final) position. In a 2006 chapter, Breu & Scholze argue against analyzing the early auxiliary position as V2, or as syntactically conditioned. Instead, they propose a phonological explanation for the auxiliary placement (Breu & Scholze (2006):51).
In this talk, I argue that the early auxiliary position, while not V2, is in fact syntactically conditioned and propose a minimalist analysis of the phenomenon, along with a sketch of the underlying structure of the Colloquial Upper Sorbian declarative clause in general.

Bibliography

Breu, Walter & Lenka Scholze. 2006. Sprachkontakt und syntax. zur position des verbs im modernen Obersorbischen. In Tilman Berger, Jochen Raecke & Tilmann Reuther (eds.), Slavistische Linguistik 2004/2005 : Referate des XXX. Konstanzer Slavistischen Arbeitstreffens, Klagenfurt, 13. - 17. September 2004 und Referate des XXXI. Konstanzer Slavistischen Arbeitstreffens, Freudenstadt, 19. - 23. September 2005 (Slavistische Beitr ̈age 453), 41–88. Munich: Sagner.

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Tag: 28.10.2023
Anfangszeit: 12:00
Dauer: 00:25
Raum: NIG Raum 1
Track: Theoretical Linguistics
Sprache: en

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