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Band 86:: Freitag, Constantin: Verb-second as a reconstruction phenomenon. Evidence from grammar and processing. XXII/300 S. - Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter, 2021.
ISBN: 978-3-11-072493-6

Alternatives Medium:: E-Book (PDF). Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter. ISBN: 978-3-11-072501-8 → Open Access

This investigation of V2-movement addresses the question which role the lexical content of the moved element plays during sentence processing. It draws on original theoretical arguments, empirical data and results from psycholinguistic experiments. The main finding is that the lexical content of the V2-verb is interpreted only at the end of the clause, i.e. at the base position of the finite verb.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface		S. IX
List of Tables		S. XV
List of Figures		S. XIX
Abbreviations		S. XXI

1.	Introduction	S. 1
Part I: The grammatical perspective on V2-movement
2.	The Syntax of V2	S. 7
3.	The V2-Reconstruction Hypothesis	S. 65
Part II: The role of V2-movement in sentence processing
4.	Basics of sentence processing	S. 121
5.	Processing of German clauses	S. 150
6.	Experimental investigations of the V2-Reconstruction Hypothesis	S. 172
7.	Peculiarities of processing V2-clauses	S. 237
8.	Grand summary and conclusion	S. 275

Bibliography		S. 281
Index		S. 299

Preface			S. IX
List of Tables			S. XV
List of Figures			S. XIX
Abbreviations			S. XXI

1.	Introduction		S. 1
Part I: The grammatical perspective on V2-movement
2.	The Syntax of V2		S. 7
2.1.		Observations: The facts about V2	S. 7
2.2.		Exceptions: Non-V2 structures	S. 42
2.3.		Explanations: A brief history of syntactic accounts	S. 48
2.4.		Chapter summary	S. 63
3.	The V2-Reconstruction Hypothesis		S. 65
3.1.		Defining the V2-Reconstruction Hypothesis	S. 65
3.2.		The C-position: Challenging a lexical contribution at the surface position	S. 71
3.3.		The base position: Arguments for the necessity of reconstruction	S. 92
3.4.		Experiment 1: The lexical meaning of periphrastic tun (acceptability judgments)	S. 108
3.5.		Chapter summary	S. 117
Part II: The role of V2-movement in sentence processing
4.	Basics of sentence processing		S. 121
4.1.		Sentence processing: Apparatus and procedures	S. 121
4.2.		Incrementality in parsing	S. 131
4.3.		Configurationality of V2: The discrepancy between finite verb and lexical head	S. 141
4.4.		Chapter summary	S. 148
5.	Processing of German clauses		S. 150
5.1.		Scrambling	S. 150
5.2.		XP-fronting	S. 154
5.3.		The processing influence of the verb	S. 157
5.4.		Chapter summary	S. 171
6.	Experimental investigations of the V2-Reconstruction Hypothesis		S. 172
6.1.		Experiment 2: Reconstruction of the verbal NPI brauchen (self-paced reading)	S. 172
6.2.		Experiment 3: Follow-up study on the NPI brauchen (self-paced reading)	S. 190
6.3.		Experiment 4: Reconstruction of infinitive-embedding verbs (self-paced reading)	S. 202
6.4.		Experiment 5: Verb reconstruction and word order preferences (self-paced reading)	S. 209
6.5.		Summary of the experimental investigations	S. 235
7.	Peculiarities of processing V2-clauses		S. 237
7.1.		Properties of V2-processing	S. 237
7.2.		Consequences and diagnostics for V2-parsing	S. 246
7.3.		Chapter summary	S. 273
8.	Grand summary and conclusion		S. 275

Bibliography			S. 281
Index			S. 299

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