Schedule 77. StuTS

Argument permutation in German subordinate clauses has been debated for decades. What feature(s) condition the alternation of arguments in "... dass der Fritz der MARIA das Buch gegeben hat / dass der Fritz das Buch der MARIA gegeben hat / ...." (Lenerz 1977) has been attributed to different modules of the grammar. Solving this conundrum thus yields consequences for the assumed structure of the grammer alltogether: whether phonological and syntactic constraints apply at the same time (Büring 2001) or whether the syntax is built entirely in the phonology (Féry 2011), among other analyses. In this presentation I will argue that argument permutation is syntactic until it is phonological. If all syntactic features are checked, certain permutations occur solely post-syntactically in the phonology through PF-movement to align with the semantic requirements, 'fixing' the syntactic structure.

Keywords: word order, focus, stress, binding

Büring, Daniel (2001): "Let's Phrase it! Focus, Word Order, and Prosodie Phrasing in German Double Object Constructions". Competition in syntax 49, p. 101-137.
Féry, Caroline (2011): "German sentence accents and embedded prosodic phrases". Lingua 121.13, p. 1906-1922.
Lenerz, Jürgen (1977): "Zur Abfolge nominaler Satzglieder im Deutschen". Narr, Tübingen.

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Day: 2025-05-16
Start time: 14:00
Duration: 00:30
Room: GWZ 2.316
Track: Theoretical Linguistics
Language: en

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