TY - CHAP
T1 - Holmberg's Generalization. Blocking and push up
AU - Broekhuis, H.
N1 - Reporting year: 2009
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Holmberg’s (1999) formulation of Holmberg’s Generalization states that Scandinavian object shift cannot cross any phonologically realized VP-internal material. This correctly predicts that object shift may not apply in, e.g., embedded clauses in Danish: since in these languages V-to-I applies in main clauses only, the main verb occupies a VP-internal position in embedded clauses, and object shift would therefore violate HG. Generally, this is considered the end of the story, but it is not as HG can in principle be satisfied in two ways: either the verb blocks object shift, or object shift pushes the verb up into the I-position. A full explanation therefore requires an answer to the question of why the latter option is not chosen in Danish.
AB - Holmberg’s (1999) formulation of Holmberg’s Generalization states that Scandinavian object shift cannot cross any phonologically realized VP-internal material. This correctly predicts that object shift may not apply in, e.g., embedded clauses in Danish: since in these languages V-to-I applies in main clauses only, the main verb occupies a VP-internal position in embedded clauses, and object shift would therefore violate HG. Generally, this is considered the end of the story, but it is not as HG can in principle be satisfied in two ways: either the verb blocks object shift, or object shift pushes the verb up into the I-position. A full explanation therefore requires an answer to the question of why the latter option is not chosen in Danish.
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9789027255242
VL - 141
T3 - Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
SP - 219
EP - 245
BT - Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax
A2 - Alexiadou, A.
A2 - Hankamer, J.
A2 - McFadden, T.
A2 - Nuger, J.
A2 - Schäfer, F
PB - John Benjamins Publishing
CY - Amsterdam/Philadelphia
ER -