Derivations and Evaluations : : Object Shift in the Germanic Languages / / Hans Broekhuis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Broekhuis, Hans,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 97
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (382 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of contents --; Chapter 1 Derivations (MP) and Evaluations --; (OT) --; Chapter 2 Short object shiftThis --; Chapter 3 Regular object shift --; Chapter 4 Object shift and other movement --; types --; Chapter 5 Predicate movement --; Chapter 6 Summary and conclusion --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110207200; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110212129; 9783110212136; 9783110209457
• ISSN: 0167-4331
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110207200
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Hans Broekhuis.

This study shows that Scandinavian object shift and so-called A-scrambling in the continental Germanic languages are the same, and aims at providing an account of the variation that we find with respect to this phenomenon by combining certain aspects of the Minimalist Program and Optimality Theory. More specifically, it is claimed that representations created by a simplified version of the computational system of human language CHL are evaluated in an optimality theoretic fashion by taking recourse to a very small set of output constraints.