Pubblicazioni

Autori:

Bidese, Ermenegildo; Padovan, Andrea; Tomaselli, Alessandra

Titolo:

Rethinking V2 and Nominative case assignment: new insights from a Germanic variety in Northern Italy

Anno:

2020

Tipologia prodotto:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Tipologia ANVUR:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Lingua:

Inglese

Formato:

A Stampa

Titolo libro:

Rethinking Verb Second.

Casa editrice:

Oxford University Press

ISBN:

9780198844303

Intervallo pagine:

1-23

Parole chiave:

Cimbrian, Syntax, Case Assignment, language contact

Breve descrizione dei contenuti:

Cimbrian is a German(ic) VO heritage language that does not display the linear V2 restriction: the DP subject can show up before the finite verb together with other constituents while verb-subject inversion a la German only obtains with clitic pronouns. In recent literature on Cimbrian, pronominal subject inversion has been taken as a traditional argument in favor of mandatory V-to-C movement (assuming a split-C configuration). Building on this assumption, the syntax of the enclitic expletive subject, -da/-ta, (which shows up whenever the DP subject does not raise in the C-domain) makes the Cimbrian scenario particularly relevant since it casts light on the correlation between V2 and Nominative case licensing. Our take is that Nominative case in Cimbrian is assigned by C and not by T – as is the case of other Germanic V2 languages – but in a very idiosyncratic way: (i) it applies within the C domain, i.e FinP; (ii) expletive -da/-ta absorbs Nominative case and acts as a defective goal with respect to the “low” subject.
 Basing on the feature-spreading model in Ouali (2008), we take the phasal head C in Cimbrian to “KEEP” its relevant φ- and T-features assigning Nominative case in [Spec,FinP] and triggering mandatory V-movement.


Id prodotto:

107010

Handle IRIS:

11562/991824

ultima modifica:

15 novembre 2022

Citazione bibliografica:

Bidese, Ermenegildo; Padovan, Andrea; Tomaselli, Alessandra, Rethinking V2 and Nominative case assignment: new insights from a Germanic variety in Northern Italy Rethinking Verb Second. , Oxford University Press , 2020 , pp. 1-23

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