Object movement (object shift and scrambling)
Hans Broekhuis
July 2019
 

This review article is intended for a handbook on Germanic languages. It differs from previous reviews of Scandinavian object shift and continental W-Germanic scrambling in that it adopts as a null hypothesis that the two phenomena should be given a unified treatment.
Format: [ pdf ]
Reference: lingbuzz/003217
(please use that when you cite this article)
Published in: Michael T. Putnam & B. Richard Page (2020). The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, pp. 413-435
keywords: object shift, a-scrambling, a'-scrambling, effect-on-output, information structure, intonation, holmberg's generalization, order preservation, vp-topicalization, semantics, syntax, phonology
previous versions: v3 [November 2017]
v2 [February 2017]
v1 [November 2016]
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