NDLI: Dutch scrambling and the nature of discourse templates

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Author	Neeleman, Ad Koot, Hans
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	The so-called cartographic approach to discourse-related word-order variation is based on the idea that particular interpretations—say, contrastive focus—are licensed in the specifier of particular functional projections—say, a focus phrase. In this paper we present arguments against this view based on scrambling in Dutch. We discuss a range of implementations of the cartographic approach and show that they are either too weak, in that they cannot generate all the word orders found in Dutch, or too strong, in that they fail to capture restrictions on scrambling. The alternative we present dispenses with discourse-related functional projections and instead relies on mapping rules that associate syntactic representations with representations in information structure. On this view, scrambling operations derive a syntactic configuration that matches the structural description of a mapping rule that could otherwise not apply. We suggest that it is this interface effect that licenses the marked structures created by scrambling.
Starting Page	137
Ending Page	189
Page Count	53
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13834924
Journal	The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
Volume Number	11
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15728552
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2008-07-09
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Discourse-anaphoricity Focus Information structure Scrambling Topic Theoretical Languages Syntax Comparative Linguistics Germanic Languages Linguistics (general)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Arts and Humanities Linguistics and Language

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