Derivations and evaluations object shift in the Germanic languages - Broekhuis, Hans (Mouton de Gruyter, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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