By Werner Frey, André Meinunger, Kerstin Schwabe
This ebook bargains with sentential proforms and their courting to their linked clauses. Sentential proforms are hugely fascinating from the perspective of grammatical conception, due to the fact their prevalence is decided not just by way of syntax, but in addition via prosody and semantics. the current quantity contributes to a greater figuring out of the interfaces among those various degrees. through delivering syntactic, prosodic, semantic, psycholinguistic and corpus-based aid, this booklet underpins the declare that there exist diverse sentential proform varieties in German and Dutch, that those proform varieties correlate with various verb sessions, and that their linked comparable clauses can be found in several syntactic positions. the current quantity additionally seems to be at a Hungarian sentential proform building, which is analogous to the German(ic) constitution, yet, even as, is diverse in its licensing stipulations.
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Was ist los? ’ *Peter bedauert das, dass Marie wegfährt. Peter regrets that that Marie goes-away Moreover, the embedded clauses occurring in combination with anaphoric es can be omitted, whereas argument clauses associated with correlate-es are obligatory, cf. (40). This difference is a direct reflex of the information structure of the sentences and the status of the embedded clauses: Anaphoric es fills an argument slot of the matrix verb on its own. Correlate-es, on the other hand, has a cataphoric relation to the focused embedded clause and must be semantically specified by it.
An additional argument for the existence of two different types of matrix verbs is provided by the fact that the same differences can be found in the passive counterparts of the respective sentences. Tomaselli (1986) claims that correlate-es can never occur in passive sentences because the verb is unable to assign an external theta role. In her view, if es is, nevertheless, accepted by speakers of German, such acceptance occurs because of an inadmissible analogy to active sentences with embedded subject clauses.
In topological accounts of German sentence structure, the term prefield (Vorfeld) refers to the position preceding the finite verb in verb-second clauses, and the term middlefield (Mittelfeld) to the area between the finite verb and the non-finite verbs in verb-second clauses and between the complementizer and the verb(s) in verb-final clauses. weil Marie (*es) mit Peter verheiratet zu sein (*es) bedauert because Marie (it) with Peter married to be (it) regrets The sentences in (4) show that es and the object clause do not form one constituent at the surface.