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This paper examines cross-speaker and cross-dialectal variation in object symmetry effects in three Germanic languages, English, Norwegian and Swedish. We argue that object symmetry effects are not a unified phenomenon, but rather that the availability of locality obviating theme movement out of applicative structures has different sources in different constructions. Both case-based and locality-based explanations are needed to model the attested variation. An additional goal of the paper is to describe a new shape conservation effect in object shift contexts. Theme-goal orders in Norwegian object shift obtains if and only if the theme and goal invert vP-internally. This effect is predicted by Fox and Pesetsky’s (2005) Cyclic Linearization model.
Author(s): Haddican W, Holmberg A
Editor(s): Veselovská, L;Janebová, M;
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: Complex Visibles Out There. Proceedings from the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2014
Year of Conference: 2014
Pages: 145-162
Acceptance date: 01/01/1900
Publisher: Palacký University Olomouc
URL: http://olinco.upol.cz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/olinco-2014-proceedings.pdf
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Series Title: Olomouc Modern Language Series
ISBN: 9788024443843
